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Finally, what sort of validity has the first Stage of inquiry? This is the most vitally important of the three questions, as well for the general theory of scientific inquiry as for the Neg. Arg. For whether it be true or not, as according to the pure Darwinian hypothesis it is, that it is fortuitous variations in reproduction alone that bridged the whole gulf between moner and man, certain it is that between the ultimate ideal goal of science