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should make above all for his freedom as an individ- 

 ual. I hear some one say : " What if the facts do 

 not verify such an hypothesis? " Henri Poincare 

 has said that a fact may be generalised in an infinite 

 number of ways, and it is a question of choice as to 

 what hypothesis we take. Surely with an infinite 

 range for our selection we may hope to find a con- 

 ception that will not only co-ordinate the facts of 

 life, but do so constructively to a larger human de- 

 velopment. 



The natural world is a sequence of cause and ef- 

 fect. Inasmuch as man is a creature of his environ- 

 ment, any philosophy in order to find objective real- 

 ity must give due recognition to physical science. 

 Not to do away, then, with Evolution as defined in 

 terms of Darwinism, but to find an hypothesis at 

 once inclusive of it and of all other life-phenomena, is 

 our aim. Such an hypothesis must account for the 

 inner as well as the outer evidence of our senses and 

 so make place for personal liberty and its correla- 

 tive, moral responsibility. 



IV 



" AND FROM THE GRAND RESULT A SUPPLEMENTARY 

 REFLUX OF LIGHT ILLUSTRATES ALL THE INFERIOR 

 GRADES, EXPLAINS EACH BACK STEP IN THE CIRCLE." 



That we have not thought to include integration 

 in our accounting for organic change is due to a pe- 



