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makes it visible to man. Science struggles with 

 contradictory facts until the whole subject is one 

 day made luminous and consistent by having 

 passed through the revealing light of that higher 

 scientist, the poet. 



If Lamarck's divination is true, there must have 

 been impressed upon the primitive protoplasm a 

 clear, far-reaching aspiration, which, all unconscious 

 in the lower life, raised it through form after form, 

 until the conscious life of man was reached. Man, 

 as we know, does vary upward by dint of wishing, 

 or as Emerson so well expresses it, " We do not 

 what we will, but what we wish." 



And is it not a stimulating thought that this 

 unity of design has run through the whole plan of 

 life development? 



Nor does this conception of the cause of prog- 

 ress interfere with that evident condition and 

 formative power already explained as natural selec- 

 tion. The progress must be within certain physi- 

 cal limits, and within these limits the life is held by 

 the circumstances about it. In other words, all 

 things must be in harmony with each other. As 

 long as a plant or an animal is in harmony with its 

 surroundings, with the soil, the climate, the neigh- 

 boring life, all goes well with it, — but if it fall out 

 of harmony, if the universal rhythm that seems ex- 

 istent in all things be broken, then the plant or 

 animal must pay the penalty of discord by ceasing 

 to live. 



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