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with the products of sensation, and its parentage can 

 not be traced to either of these. Nor, is it akin to in- 

 stinct, for instinct is blind and unconscious, while genius 

 is quick-sighted and sensitive. Instinct never grows : 

 genius cannot be its offspring. The origin of the faculty 

 which constructs machines and theories must be sought 

 for outside and above all material combinations, me- 

 chanical laws, animal instincts, and the necessities of 

 primitive human life. We can find no clue to it in any 

 combination of facts, events, principles, or laws relating 

 to material things. 



Hence, the birth and growth of science is an example 

 of evolution in so far as evolution is a progress from the 

 lowly and simple to the high and complex. It is an 

 evolution also in the relationship of successive steps, 

 each growing out of the preceding, as branch, and twig, 

 and flower, and fruit, inherit, the same life and follow in 

 necessary succession. But it is not an example of evo- 

 lution, if by evolution we must mean a transformation, 

 the cause of which is imminent in that which is trans- 

 formed. Materialistic evolution here breaks down again. 

 I say again, because it breaks down once when it at- 

 tempts to pass from the lifeless to the living forms of 

 matter ; a second time, when from living forms it would 

 l>ass to conscious beings ; and a third time, when out of 

 consciousness it is asked to construct an intellect. 



But, finally, there is extant a better than the material- 

 istic theory of evolution. I refer to that phase of evolu- 

 tion which invokes a principle higher than mechanical 

 forces to exj)lain the progress of the world. This theory 

 the birth and growth of science fitly illustrates. 



In the beginning there were nature and sensation. A 

 truth-loving and inventive intelligence is the higher and 

 independent principle which moulded them into the in- 

 fant form of science, and which has since determined 



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