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suffering a great retardation in order that the life- 

 stream may be raised to the higher level whereon evo- 

 lution would work its onward way. But without 

 such an uplift, humanity would sooner or later run 

 aground in some superman, as visioned by Nietzsche. 

 The world strife is justified of the Evolutionary 

 rhythm. 



WONDROUS WHOLE, IMPERFECT QUALITIES THROUGH- 

 OUT CREATION, SUGGESTING SOME ONE CREATURE YET 

 TO MAKE." 



Our desire to subsume all of Nature's workings 

 under the formula of Evolution has caused us to over- 

 look a process of vital significance to the world-order. 

 While Nature has achieved much through the perfect- 

 ing of the individual, her larger progress has come 

 through the summing up of her activities. From the 

 atom to the molecule, from the molecule to the crys- 

 tal, from the crystal to the sphere, she has leaped on 

 her upward way. The centripetal force has ever 

 taken its turn with the centrifugal at the wheel of 

 things. The passing from the homogeneous to the 

 heterogeneous is only half the process, since the lat- 

 ter must pass again into the homogeneous for the ac- 

 complishing of the further diversity necessary to 

 progress. " Organic evolution," says Professor 

 Ritter in a recent book, " is just as fundamentally an 



