Excerpt from Magazine Writing: And the New Literature The term evolution and the phraseology applicable to the procedure thus named have come into gen eral use, very well serving their scientific purpose. There is also a general presumption, quite untenable, that the universe is planned, and that evolution is its explanation. Of the real world there is no plan and no explanation. We speak of one form of existence as emerging from a previous form, as if the latest form were thus accounted for. If there were any accounting for anything, it would seem more rea sonable to reverse this order and look to the ulti mate as accounting for the whole series. The idea of implication, of involution, would tend to occupy our minds to the exclusion of that of explication or evolution. All such terms are notional, due to limitations incident to our mental constitution or habit. The assumption that they express reality, if persisted in, leads us to the conception of a me chamical universe, to a sterile speculation. 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.