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Another good chapter is that on a " Uniform Standard for Comparative 

 Animal Psychology." 



We would earnestly commend to all scientists a careful study of 

 Chap. VII., Bk. V., in Mills' Logic, " on Fallacies of Confusion," as most 

 useful to them in building up their theories. It has always appeared to 

 us that modern animal psychologists are faithless to their theory of 

 evolution. Evolution teaches us that there is an ever upward step in the 

 succession of being ; hence we should expect that this would take place 

 in the case of man, the present culmination of all previous evolutions of 

 being. This, Revelation makes known. Creatures below man have had 

 evolved for them, in rising degrees, a sensitive soul, that can direct them 

 to act suitably to their needs for obtaining good and avoiding harm. The 

 next step would be the " evolution," so to call it, of a creature that would 

 add intelligent reasoning, and a deeper insight into the true nature and 

 reason of things ; a being that would more nearly, in this and other ways, 

 e. g., the moral sense of right and wrong, approach the character of the 

 Great Author and Ruler of all. Man is clearly seen to surpass other 

 creatures, especially in this last respect. Man has a conscience as regards, 

 if we call it so, the abstract nature of good and evil as principles of 

 conduct, not merely of expediency. The best of men in all ages have felt 

 that they were not mere clods of the valley, but had a future. Revelation 

 explains this by letting us know that that which differentiates man is his 

 threefold nature ; his highest constituent being his spirit, in which reside 

 . and act his intellectual and reasoning powers properly so called. Science, 

 if it does not attempt to go beyond its province by calling in imagination 

 to its aid, will find itself stopped at a certain point. If it assures us that 

 acts and thoughts are the results of motion, or change, in the brain cells, 

 it cannot tell us what that mysterious thing is that connects will, or 

 thought, with that motion or change. Why not, then, accept the 

 explanation afUbrded by Revelation ? It is answered : Revelation does 

 not clear up the mystery. No more it does ; but it gives us the informa- 

 tion that man has a nature not wholly common to other creatures, but is 

 possessed of a constituent that enables him to see, more and more, into 

 deep things and thoughts, and the next step higher will be when the new 

 man " Shall know even as he is known." W. E. Cooper. 



Mailed September 1st, 1904. 



