MODERN EVOLUTION. xgl 



autobiography which it is an open secret Mr. Spencer 

 has written. 



" That Law, Religion, and Manners are thus re- 

 lated — that their respective kinds of operation come 

 under one generahsation — that they have in certain 

 contrasted characteristics of men a common support 

 and a common danger — will, however, be most 

 clearly seen on discovering that they have a com- 

 mon origin. Little as from present appearances we 

 should suppose it, we shall yet find that at first, 

 the control of religion, the control of laws, and the 

 control of manners, were all one control. However 

 incredible it may now seem, we believe it to be 

 demonstrable that the rules of etiquette, the pro- 

 visions of the statute-book, and the commands of the 

 decalogue, have grown from the same root. If we 

 go far back enough into the ages of primeval 

 Fetishism, it becomes manifest that originally Deity, 

 Chief, and Master of the Cermonies were identical " 

 (Essays, vol. i, 1883 edition; Manners and Fashion, 

 p. 65). 



" Scientific advance is as much from the special 

 to the general as from the general to the special. 

 Quite in harmony with this we find to be the admis- 

 sions that the sciences are as branches of one trunk, 

 and that they were at first cultivated simultaneously; 

 and this becomes the more marked on finding, as we 

 have done, not only that the sciences have a common 

 root, but that science in general has a common root 

 with language, classification, reasoning, art; that 



