An Introduction to a Biology 



We think of a thing in a straight line. So Natural Selec- 

 tion explains improvement : it does not explain divarica- 

 tion. 



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To draw the line somewhere. ... Of all forms of self- 

 expression drawing lines is the most inartistic and the least 



satisfying. 



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Matthew Arnold says, know what you want to say, and 

 say it as simply as you can. Strange not to see that the 

 idea does not fully exist until it is expressed ; but as in 

 the eyes of the law a man's life begins with birth, so an 

 idea dates its origin not from the moment of its first dim 

 conception, but from the moment when it was born, i.e. 



literally expressed. 



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The secret of is that she doesn't externalise. She 



cannot use a watch. She is the opposite of , e.g., who has 



externalised himself in his museum and his library. None 

 of her interests are external. That is why she has such 

 power : she doesn't dissipate it : she keeps it all in. If 

 one must externalise oneself, one should do it spiritually 

 through art or children. 



" Original." The sources of the Ock come from rain, but 

 only after that rain has passed through much earth. My 

 drawings come from reality, not direct I never copy but 

 through many days of my existence. Beethoven's revela- 

 tion of life comes from life, but not only the life he has 

 lived in his own person, but from the life he has lived in 

 the persons of his ancestors extending back probably to 

 pre-human ones. A man cannot formulate a conception of 

 life from the conscious observations he has made during 

 his own lifetime. He must formulate and make conscious 

 what is already in him. 



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