I'm afraid it's my natural point of view, and I've been trying for a long time to get rid of that old Adam.

Go on with your idea about the organisation of society.

What ultimate form do you suppose nature to be aiming at ?" Dyce seemed to reflect for a moment.

He asked himself, in fact, whether Lord Dymchurch was at all likely to come upon that French work which, pretty certainly, he had not yet read.

The probability seemed slight.
In any case, cannot a theory be originated independently by two minds?
His eye lighting up with the joy of clear demonstration--to Dyce it was a veritable joy, his narrow, but acute, mind ever tending to sharp-cut system--he displayed the bio-sociological theory in its whole scope.
More than interested, and not a little surprised, Lord Dymchurch followed carefully from point to point, now and then approving with smile or nod.