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reuniting of things into higher wholes. All these 

 processes are brought about by sex more perfectly 

 than by any other factor known." 1 Except for these 

 passing salutations, however, there is no appeal to the 

 laws of physical or sub-organic evolution. We are 

 bidden indeed follow nature; we are bidden throw 

 ourselves into the current of evolution; but it is ani- 

 mated nature that is to be our guide; the nature 

 which Darwin studied will teach us rightly if we 

 a little readjust the formula in which Darwin summed 

 up his results. 



Going back a step farther, from Spencer to Comte, 

 we cannot but be struck with the extraordinary close- 

 ness of discipleship manifested by Drummond. If 

 Comte started the process of naturalistic study of 

 duty under the flag of sociology, Drummond accepts 

 the whole programme. The appeal to history dis- 

 appears; with all his varied culture that was not in 

 Drummond's line. But the appeal to biology stands ; 

 the conception of altruism as a synonym for virtue 

 stands firm ; the conception of sociology as an authori- 

 tative science, growing out of biology, is accepted in 

 so many words. " Every earnest mind is prepared to 

 welcome" sociology, " not only as the coming science, 

 but as the crowning Science of all the Sciences, the 

 Science indeed for which it will one day be seen 

 every other science exists. What it waits for mean- 

 time is what every science has had to wait for, ex- 

 haustive observation of the facts and ways of Nature. 

 Geology stood still for centuries waiting for those 

 who would simply look at the facts. . . . Sociology 

 has had its Werners; it awaits its Huttons. The 



1 Ascent of Man, pp. 336, 337. 



