82 THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION 



things and processes in the explanatory formula of an 

 evolutionary hypothesis as the postulate of the same, 

 when such things or processes cannot be recognized in 

 their entire nature as the results of an evolutionary 

 process. That would be the case if, for example, in 

 the whole of our experience of the accessible world 

 absolutely nothing could be found which reasonably 

 could be regarded as a foundation, as an undeveloped 

 ' latent ' form in short, as a beginning of that which 

 it is desired to explain, since ' evolution/ in itself, 

 signifies development and extension of a thing or con- 

 dition which at least can be suggested -as existent. If 

 two things of which the one has the perfection or 

 capacity under consideration, the other possessing 

 neither even as a commencement exist together, these 

 may have manifold relations to each other and naturally 

 may affect each other, but through ' evolution ' they 

 have no connection. 



