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stars. The world consists not only of electrons and radiations, but also 
of souls and aspirations. Beauty and holiness are as much aspects 
of nature as energy and entropy. Thus “in eternal lines to time it 
grows.” An adequate world-view would find them all in their proper 
context in the framework of the whole. And evolution is perhaps the 
only way of approach to the framing of a consistent world-picture which 
would do justice to the immensity, the profundity, and the unutterable 
mystery of the universe. 
Such in vague outline is the world-picture to which science seems to 
me to be pointing. We may not all agree with my rendering of it, which 
indeed does not claim to be more than.a mere sketch. And even if it were 
generally accepted, we have still to bear in mind that the world-picture 
of to-morrow will in all probability be very different from any which 
could be sketched to-day. 
