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soul was quite conceivable and possible, then its 

 origin by process of natural evolution would, 

 indeed, also be conceivable and indeed a priori 

 probable. 



But if, on the other band, we were convinced, 

 from whatever reason, that it was incon- 

 ceivable and impossible for such a body to 

 be developed or exist without such informing 

 soul, then we should, with perfect reason and 

 ]ogic, affirm that as no natural process would 

 account for the entirely different kind of soul — 

 one capable of articulately expressing general 

 conceptions* — so no merely natural process 

 could account for the origin of the body 

 informed by it- 1 — a body to which such an 

 intellectual faculty was so essentially and 

 intimately related. 



* " It is not emotional expressions or manifestations 

 of sensible impressions, however exhibited, which have to 

 be accounted for, but the enunciation of distinct deliberate 

 judgments as to ' the what,' ' the how,' and ' the why,' by- 

 definite articulate sounds ; and for these Mr. Darwin not 

 only does not account, but he does not adduce anything 

 even tending to account for them." * Quarterly Eeview,' 

 July 1871. Article, ' The Descent of Man,' p. 79. 



