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reality. In Browning's sense, he was not a new sound, 

 but a star. 



The evolutionist does not interpret the higher in 

 terms of the lower, the man in terms of the beast, for 

 that would be to deny the newness of the emergence. 

 He sees antecedent pre-human stages with less of 

 certain characteristics, such as intelligence and self- 

 consciousness ; out of these emerges Man, a new 

 creature, not rising at once, of course, to the height of 

 his calling, but with a new chord that is a fresh start 

 in what Lotze called "the onward advancing melody." 

 Into the new fabric there pass no doubt strands of the 

 old, but some threads are new and the pattern is new. 

 Explain it who can, but that is the way the loom of 

 time works. The religious interpretation is a reverent 

 acknowledgment of God as the spiritual source of all, 

 as "the nisus through whose activity emergents 

 emerge, and the whole course of emergent evolution is 

 directed" (Lloyd Morgan). 



§6. Man's Emergence. 



The story of man's evolution, so far as we can pic- 

 ture it, has never been told better than in Yale. In 

 the series of masterly lectures by Professors Lull, 

 Ferris, Parker, Angell, Keller, and Conklin, coopera- 

 tion has achieved a breadth and depth probably be- 

 yond individual attainment. We have neither criti- 

 cism nor addition to suggest. All that we can do is to 

 lay emphasis on certain points in the story which have 

 some bearing on religious interpretation. 



