GREAT MEN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Solidarity of causes in the world, 216. The human mind abstracts

in order to explain, 219. Different cycles of operation in

Nature, 220. Darwin's distinction between causes that produce

and causes that preserve a variation, 221. Physiological causes

produce, the environment only adopts or preserves, great men,

225. When adopted they become social ferments, 226. Messrs.

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Spencer and Allen criticised, 232. Messrs. Wallace and

Gryzanowski quoted, 239. The laws of history, 244. Mental

evolution, 245. Analogy between original ideas and Darwin's

accidental variations, 247. Criticism of Spencer's views, 251.

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