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ncxer appeared l^eforc. They Avore an uncouth aspect which was 

 unfamiliar and yet strangely familiar to us. They Avere alive. 

 Evolution fr'om that time became a thing in which it was not a 

 necessity but a joy to believe." 



Do we not also realize that the thought of a common vital 

 impulse, such as Bergson suggests, brings with it a wider outlook 

 for man 1 " An organic being," writes Charles Darwin, '' is a 

 microcosm, a little universe formed of a host of self-propagating 

 organisms inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in 

 heaven." And Samuel Butler adds: "As these myriads of 

 smaller organisms are parts and processes of us, so are we but 

 parts and processes of life at large." And Haldane has the same 

 thought when he says: "The individual organism, like the 

 individual cell in a complex organism, belongs to a wider organic 

 whole, apart from which much of its life is unintelligible." 



