CHAPTER VII 



THE PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF INVOLUTION 



STREWN CONFUSEDLY EVERYWHERE ABOUT THE IN- 

 FERIOR NATURES, AND ALL LEAD UP HIGHER, ALL 

 SHAPE OUT DIMLY THE SUPERIOR RACE." 



At a recent alumni banquet in one of our large uni- 

 versities, an eminent biologist was called upon to re- 

 spond to the toast, "After Science, What?" His 

 auditors instinctively braced for the oncoming of 

 mechanistic forces. What was their glad surprise 

 at the simple response, " Love " ! Such farsighted- 

 ness is in our spiritual order of things only if one has 

 attained to the summit of the years ; from a man 

 whose eye is still at the microscope we have come to 

 expect a vision limited to heliotropic dogs and their 

 human prototypes. That such a question could be 

 put to a scientist, to say nothing of the answer, is 

 most significant. Can it be that fifty years of Dar- 

 winism have sufficed to bring consciousness to such 

 extension in matter that, as Bergson tells us, it has 



perforce to turn toward life for further advance? 



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