Excerpt from The Open Court, 1877-88, Vol. 1: A Fortnightly Journal It seems to me that there are such principles. And one of the first among them is that nature in this matter should be our teacher; not material nature merely, but nature in its broad meaning as including man as well as the physical universe - nature as cover ing the whole of that spinal world-plan by which, as science assures. Us, from the amorphous, chaotic mass of primitive matter, with whatever forces were inherent in it, there came successively all the various orders of being known to earth, on an ascending scale of organic capac ity and function, until man was reached, with his com manding intellect, his moral sense, his creative purpose and will to be guided by reason and right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.