tween cosmic order and human ideals? Darwin himself has shown how
the consciousness of duty can arise as a natural result of evolution.
Moreover there are lines of evolution which have their end in ethical
idealism, in a kingdom of values, which must struggle for life as all
things in the world must do, but a kingdom which has its firm
foundation in reality.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 195: _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_, Vol. I. p. 8.]
[Footnote 196: _Encyclopaedie der philosophischen Wissenschaften_ (4th
edit.), Berlin, 1845, Sec. 249.]
[Footnote 197: _Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie_, Jena, 1809.]
[Footnote 198: _Ueber den Willen in der Natur_ (2nd edit.), Frankfurt
a. M., 1854, pp. 41-43.]
[Footnote 199: Spencer, _Autobiography_, Vol. II. p. 50, London and
New York, 1904.]
[Footnote 200: _Autobiography_, Vol. II. p. 100.]
[Footnote 201: Cf. my letter to him 1876, now printed in Duncan's
_Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer_, p. 178. London, 1908.]
[Footnote 202: The present writer, many years ago, in his _Psychology_
(Copenhagen, 1882; Eng. transl. London, 1891), criticised the
evolutionistic treatment of the problem of knowledge from the Kantian
point of view.]
[Footnote 203: _Life and Letters_, Vol. II. p. 37.]
[Footnote 204: _Ibid._ p. 232.]
[Footnote 205: The new science of Ecology occupies an intermediate
position between the biography of species and the biography of
individuals. Compare _Congress of Arts and Science_, St. Louis, Vol.
V. 1906 (The Reports of Drude and Robinson) and the work of my
colleague, E. Warming.]
[Footnote 206: Cf. my _History of Modern Philosophy_ (Eng. transl.
London, 1900), I. pp. 76-79.]
[Footnote 207: "Herrschaft und Knechtschaft," _Phoenomenologie des
Geistes_, IV. A., Leiden, 1907.]
[Footnote 208: _The Descent of Man_, Vol. I. Ch. iii.]
[Footnote 209: The works of Westermarck and Hobhouse throw new light
on many of these features.]
[Footnote 210: New York and London, 1893.]
[Footnote 211: Paris, 1879.]
[Footnote 212: _English literature and society in the eighteenth
century_, London, 1904, p. 187.]
[Footnote 213: Cf. my paper, "The law of relativity in Ethics,"
_International Journal of Ethics_, Vol. I. 1891, pp. 37-62.]
[Footnote 214: _Life and Letters_, Vol. I. p. 310.]
[Footnote 215: _Ibid._ Vol. II. p. 177.]
[Footnote 216: _Life and Letters_, Vol. 1. p. 306.]
[Footnote 217: _Life and Letters_, p. 307.]
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