410 THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE. 



the process of evolutioii of organisms, is aflBliated on the 

 process of evolution in general, can it be truly said to be 

 explained. The thing required is to show that its various 

 results are corollaries from first principles. We have to 

 reconcile the facts with the universal laws of the re-distrihu- 

 lion of matter and motion. 



