The Science and Philosophy of the Organism

o become of importance to human knowledge? And can it always become "science" by such a transformation? We afterwards sha

y is not complete, and scarcely anything is known about the factors which act in it. But in spite of that, so much, it seems to me, is gained by our analysis of the possible aspects o

anic history as a cumulation; they indeed might claim to furnish an historical explanation in the

history proper would become more than history. But I only say that phylogeny might be evolution, and in fact I cannot admit more than this a priori, even on the basis of an internal transformistic principle, as has been assumed. Such a principle also might lead always from one typical state of organisation to the next: but ad infi

mism remains as poor as it is. We need only add, for the sake of logical interest, that phyloge