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can only be made by following in Darwin’s steps, by adopting 
the method of research which he has taught us, and by 
largely using the rich stores of material which he has 
collected, but I am nevertheless a firm believer in the time- 
honoured proverb “ Honour to whom honour is due/’ and I 
think I have made it clear that the theory of Evolution which 
Darwin applied to plants and animals Mr. Herbert Spencer 
applied, and applied previously too, to everything here and 
elsewhere. Listen to what Professor John Fiske, the eminent 
American philosopher and Spencerian, in a charming little 
book called “ The Destiny of Man,” published in 1884, says 
of both Darwin and Spencer. Speaking of one of Darwin’s 
laws, known as “ Natural Selection,” he says: “Reckless of 
good and evil, it brings forth at once the mother’s tender love 
for her infant and the horrible teeth of the ravening shark, 
and to its creative indifference the one is as good as the 
other.” Of Spencer he says: “The greatest philosopher of 
modern times, the master and teacher of all who shall study 
the process of Evolution for many a day to come, holds that 
the conscious soul is not the product of a collocation of 
material particles, but is in the deepest sense a divine 
effluence. According to Mr. Herbert Spencer, the divine 
energy which is manifested throughout the knowable universe 
is the same energy that wells up in us as consciousness.” 
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“ Our wills are ours, we know not how ; 
Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 
Our little systems have their day ; 
They have their day and cease to be ; 
They are but broken lights of thee, 
And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they.” 
THE MIDDLE LIAS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
BY BEEBY THOMPSON, F.G.S., F.C.S. 
PART I. 
(Continued from page 281.) 
Near to Chipping Warden there are two sections of the 
Marlstone; the one nearest the village showing about five feet 
of the rock-bed, with, at the top, some portions of the Tran¬ 
sition-bed containing many gasteropods. The best section, 
however, in this neighbourhood is one situated about a mile 
from Chipping Warden towards Byfield. The Transition- 
bed here has yielded to the careful working of Mr. Walford a 
