204 LIFE IN NATURE. 



Animal existence shows us beautiful means per- 

 verted to evil ends : the glory of nature's order 

 yoked to the base car of selfish needs and graspings. 

 But it is not perverted thus unmarred ; it could not 

 be. Even in mechanical adaptation the organic is the 

 weak part of nature ; not as it seems to us, the strong 

 one. The glorious sweep of her order refuses to 

 revolve around that miserable centre of the self; 

 frailties, deformities, diseases, bear witness to the 

 strife, and testify the nobler sphere to which her 

 powers are vowed. 



