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cosmic evolution.
exercise his independence in the free choice of things and impressing his individuality
Mar : the upon the sorroundings. Nature has left man product of no option, no free will to act. But the circumstances play the part of Destiny as it were, rough-hewing and moulding him after their own casts. He acts and moves about indeed but only impelled by the forces of Nature. Nor man can be taken as the same individual being who has been running down from eternity through the processes of metempsychoses. It is true that Nature has been working from time without beginning, ushering into existence from the conflict of the aggregative and separaive forces inherent in her, the stars and .planets composing the astronomical cosmos ; and as these have been going on revolving round their own orbits according to the fixed and inexonerable laws of motion, a few forms of life have sprung out into being to crawl on earth. The cosmic processes of life and living in the shape of their adaptation to the environment and transmission of the acquired characters to the off-spring at last culminated in the
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