194 THE CASE AGAINST EVOLUTION 



erties, energies, and activities of matter. Hence whatever is 

 incapable of existence and activity apart from matter (whether 

 ponderable or imponderable) belongs to the material, as dis- 

 tinguished from the spiritual, order of things. The soul of 

 a brute, for example, is not matter, but it is material, never- 

 theless, because it is totally dependent on the matter of the 

 organism, apart from which it has neither existence nor 

 activity of its own. 



In the constitution of the sentient or animal soul, matter 

 reaches the culmination of its passive evolution. True, its 

 inherent physicochemical forces do not suffice to bring about 

 this consummation, wherewith its internal potentiality is 

 exhausted. Nevertheless, the emergence of an animal soul from 

 matter is conceivable, given an agency competent to educe 

 it from the intrinsic potentiality of matter; for, in the last 

 analysis, the animal soul is simply an internal modification 

 of matter itself. But, if spirit is that which exists, or is, at 

 least, capable of existence, apart from matter, it goes with- 

 out saying that spirit is neither derivable from, nor resolv- 

 able into, matter of any kind. Consequently, it cannot be 

 evolved from matter, but must be produced in matter by cre- 

 ation {i.e. total production). To make the human mind or 

 soul a product of evolution is equivalent to a denial of its 

 spirituality, because it implies that the human soul like that 

 of the brute, is inherent in the potentiality of matter, and 

 is therefore a purely material principle, totally dependent on 

 the matter, of which it is a perfection. Between such a soul 

 and the sentient principle present in the beast, there would 

 be no essential difference of kind, but only an accidental dif- 

 ference of degree; and this is precisely what Darwin and his 

 successors have spared no effort to demonstrate. James Har- 

 vey Robinson is refreshingly frank on this subject, and we 

 will therefore let him be spokesman for those who are more 

 reticent: 



"It is the extraordinarily illuminating discovery {sic) of 

 man's animalhood rather than evolution in general that 



