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CHAPTER. I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



I SHALL perhaps, best promote the acceptance of the 

 two main points on which I have been insisting for 

 some years past, I mean, the: substantial identity 

 between heredity and memory, and the reintroduction 

 of design into organic devdopment, by treating them 

 as if .they had something of that physical life with 

 which they are so closely connected. Ideas are like, 

 plants and animals in this respect, also, as, in so many 

 others, that they are more fully understood when their 

 relations to other ideas of their time,, and the history 

 of their development are known and borne in mind. 

 By development I do not merely mean their growth 

 in the minds of those who first advanced them, but 

 that larger development which consists in their sub- 

 sequent good or evil fortunes — in their reception, 

 favourable or otherwise, by those to whom they were 

 presented. This is to an idea what its surroundings 

 are to an organism,, and throws much the same light 



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