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aiw interfering, to do all that is done in the Universe, for that 
Sd be a denial that He has really given to the phenomena 
„ law or any fixed order : it would deny that hie was an 
rthfcreatini^ "ofthe^sfpreme ; since 
S:S Supreme^ 
is a contradiction, as great as se Uf-oyrgriaatirig; ^heJ 
find who attempts to form the idea. Om business tnen 
should be to question the facts as they ** e CO ncem 
and mark the answer they give ; especially those that concern 
“The “Generic Life,” which, according to our Philosophy, 
The Generic^ ^ ^ now upholds in lts ever-acting 
in generic life, ener2:v i s shared, we fully admit, m certain way^, 
lw the highest moral agent as well as by the lowest organic 
Xwth i. j ». sum of our vital bmug, «th™ 
11 wnnltl hp alike Plainly, however, a vitality which we 
inh^e bodily isaLo in the field-flower which we gaze on. Our 
life of limb, and lung, and brain, is constantly ep up -y 
our acquiring and assimilating that unseen generic reality 
which acts towards ns on fixed laws, or (to speak more ex- 
a ^ i hiSe“£nger forms ofyife-facWhicWe 
distinguished by the term specific, Jj ^ * 
and in specific. • ^ only active but volitional, and not omy vcm 
ti.u.l but com™.., undoubtedly domm.te. g-Jj-g 
mmmmm 
to be its nature to energize ^ap. thcm^b a J 
agency not unfrequentl of* more spe- 
Slife may briefly exceed themselves; b ^^n tenl^ct 
again when met by higher specific li . reC over 
ilml-.x".* 0 b T 'b»T» S ‘SvS.r»f“ V»- n 
be entirely alike, yet in the 
life the same type is ever ready ^tv Now neither Pro- 
tores from that type r ctarles^eU wfil be suspected as unfair 
that no evidence has ever been produced that any gioup 
