IN MODERN SCIENCE. 



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of facts. But in doing so they are not pre- 

 pared to accept the purely mechanical creed 

 of the monist, or to separate themselves from 

 those ideas of morality, of religion, and of 

 sonship to God which have hitherto been the 

 brightest gems in the crown of man as the 

 lord of this lower world. Whether they can 

 maintain this position against the monists, and 

 whether they will be able in the end to retain 

 any practical form of religion along with the 

 doctrine of the derivation of man from the 

 lower animals, remains to be seen. Possibly 

 before these questions come to a final issue 

 the philosophy of evolution may itself have 

 been " modified " or have given place to some 

 new phase of thought. 



One curious point in this connection, to which 

 little attention has been given by evolutionists, 

 is that to which Herbert Spencer has given the 

 name of " direct equilibration," though he is suf- 

 ficiently wise not to invite too much attention 

 to it. This is the balance of parts and forces 

 within the organism itself. The organism is a 

 complex machine ; and if its parts have been 

 put together by chance and are drifting onward 

 in the path of evolution, there must of neces- 

 sity be a continual struggle going on between 



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