ABSTRACT
DURING the present century we have heard so much of the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics that we are apt to forget how great has been the change in the outlook due to biology. Yet in some respects this has been the more important. For it is affecting the way we think and act in our everyday existence. Without the discoveries and ideas of Darwin and the other great pioneers in the biological field, from Mendel to Freud, we should all be different from what we are. The discoveries of physics and chemistry have given us an enormous control over lifeless matter and have provided us with a host of new machines and conveniences, and this certainly has reacted on our general attitude. They have also provided us with a new outlook on the universe at large: our ideas about time and space, matter and creation, and our own position in the general scheme of things, are very different from the ideas of our grandfathers.
