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Idealism; but, in part, also to the fact that our theory about Nature ought to be just to the empirical inductions which have now been summed up in the modern Doctrine of Evolution. The essence of this Doctrine of Evolution lies in the fact that it recognizes the continuity of man’s life with that of an extra-human realm, whose existence is hinted to us by our experience of Nature. Accepting, as we are obliged to do, the objective significance of this modern doctrine, we find ourselves forced to interpret Nature, not as an arbitrarily determined realm of valid experiences founded only in God’s creative will and man’s sensory life, but as an orderly realm of genuine conscious life, one of whose products, expressions, and examples we find in the mind of Man.