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Excerpt from The Relative Value of the Processes Causing Evolution But at times the feeling will not down, that a great number of eminent and able Biologists utterly fail to understand in how far their results have value in themselves, and in how far they are but building-stones. Many do not seem to see, that, without a timely attempt to utilize their results in construct ing a coherent whole of a higher order much detail is utterly wasted, being without significance in itself. It is very evident that many fail to see the forest because of all the trees. There is no real spirit of subordination of the different genet ical investigations to the main problems of evolution, in the work of any but Bateson and a few others. What we need from time to time, is to pause, and try to see' what all the others are doing, where they are going, what work is left undone, and where work is unnecessarily duplicated. 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.