2 ORGANIC EVOLUTION. 



Seasons return because conditions return, but con- 

 ditions never return in the world of life. 



AVhat we know we know not as a permanence, but 

 as a phase of change. 



Nothing in the universe due to chance or whim. 

 Meaning of law. " The ascertained sequence of 

 events."- -The necessary sequence of events. The fall 

 of a leaf follows fixed law as much as the fall of a 

 planet. This true of everything we can know of. The 

 creation of man or the growth of a state as much nat- 

 ural processes as the formation of an apple or the 

 growth of a sand-bank. 



The exact sciences, those in which data are most 

 simple or most accessible. The inexact sciences 

 the sciences of life are inexact only because the human 

 mind can never seize all their data. The law of rain. 

 It never rains when it can do otherwise. A broken 

 law means the failure of the universe. In this sense 

 laws can never be broken. The laws of nature not 

 the executors of human justice. Each law has its own 

 result and no other. Each one tends in its own way 

 toward cosmic order. " If Clod should wink at a single 

 act of injustice, the whole universe would shrivel up 

 like a cast-off snake skin." (Arab proverb.) Each 

 law the expression of the best possible way in which 

 causes and results can be joined. Emerson's remark 

 on being "sound and solvent." The laws of nature, 

 expressions of the soundness and solvency of the In- 

 finite force. A broken law would be the expression 

 of unsoundness and insolvency. The gradual recog- 

 nition of law constitutes the progress of science. Cost 

 of every step. Analogy to individual growth. 



