AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



II 

 THE BIOLOGIST AND WAR 



IN our preceding discussion we had a 

 fleeting glance at the evidence which 

 convinces the biologist that man is to be 

 regarded as an evolutionary derivation 

 from older and lower forms of life; 

 and hence that in attempting to under- 

 stand human life he must ever have an 

 eye open to the influences on it of the 

 persisting vestiges of earlier kinds of life 

 which are certainly in it. Also, if man is 

 to be regarded as in and a part of Nature 

 and not out of or beyond it, we must 

 be ready to recognize the part, however 

 large or small, played in determining his 

 fate by those biological factors or laws 

 which play so dominant a part in the 

 determination of the character and fate of 

 the lower animals. 



But man by virtue of his social devel- 

 opment and educational inheritance has 

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