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tion, for they work in direct opposition to the prin- 

 ciple underlying the struggle for existence. The 

 mutual incompatibility of altruism and natural selec- 

 tion goes without saying. Darwinism is in no sense 

 socialistic. Powerful though the searchlight is 

 which evolution has thrown across the Great Sea of 

 Life, it has illumined but one phase of the billows. 3 



s How absolutely universal is the extent, and at the same 

 time how completely subordinate the significance, of the mis- 

 sion which mechanism has to fulfill in the structure of the 

 world. 



LOTZE. 



