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 most efficiently in two ways. First, it is in harmony with these chapters, and reinforces its purpose in refuting the governing principle in Evolution as heretofore expounded. And second, the new governing principle of the evolutionary process offered, not only shows the inadequacy of evolutionary philosophy in general, but it also proposes a solution that, from one point of view, is separated but a step from the conclusions of the Theist.

The philosophy of the English Sociologists, which is nothing other than the doctrine of Evolution applied to the social status, Mr. Kidd thus relegates to antiquity, "There has been no system of ideas that has ever held the mind of the world from which the intellectual basis has been so completely struck away. That theory of human religions which so many minds have followed and surpassed Mr. Spencer in developing merely as a theory of sur-