XII.] THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 329 



Baden Powell i observes on this subject : " The relation 

 of the animal man to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual 

 man, resembles that of a crystal slumbering in its native 

 quarry to the same crystal mounted in the polarizing 

 a23paratus of the philosopher. The difference is not in 

 physical nature, but in investing that nature with a new 

 and higher application. Its continuity with the material 

 world remains the same, but a new relation is developed 

 in it, and it claims kindred with ethereal matter and with 

 celestial light." 



This well expresses the distinction between the merely 

 physical and hyperphysical natures of man, and the 

 subsumption of the former into the latter which domi- 

 nates it. 



The same author in speaking of man's moral and 

 spiritual nature says : - " The assertion in its very essence 

 refers wholly to a diffekent order of things, apart from 

 and transcending any material ideas whatsoever." Again ^ 

 he adds : " In proportion as man's moral superiority is held 

 to consist in attributes 7iot of a material or corporeal kind 

 or origin, it can signify little how his physical nature may 

 have originated." 



Now physical science, as such, has nothing to do with 

 the soul of man which is hyperphysical. That such an 

 entity exists, that the correlated physical forces go 

 through their Protean transformations, have their per- 

 sistent ebb and How outside of the world of will and 

 SELF-CONSCIOUS MORAL BEING, are propositions tlie proofs 

 of which have no place in the present work. This at least 

 may however be confidently affirmed, that no reach of 



1 "Unity of Worlds," E.ssay ii. § ii. p. 247. - Ibid. Essay i. § ii. p. 76. 



2 Ibid. Essay iii. § iv. p. -IGG. 



