70 The Morality of Nature 



higher sphere of activity has taken not this place but a higher 

 place, and apparently this is the logical course of progress in 

 the moral law. Yet as we observed in other studies the 

 law of the lower sphere seems to persist and not to be 

 superseded, and the heredity and variation of humanity 

 seem to be related to environment under laws which comprise 

 the lower with the higher. 



And so humanity in its wisdom and these creatures in 

 their utter unconsciousness of the law, live alike in indi- 

 vidual responsibility for conduct and endure alike the 

 consequences, even death, of error. And it is by this 

 interposition of death that the law is maintained and con- 

 tinued, and the new conduct variation ends if unfit, or 

 becomes habitual and hereditary if fit, and serves to increase 

 the resisting power of the life possessing it. 



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