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the whole black world of infra-neural energj' have its white or infra- 

 conscious aspect, if we could only get at it. The worst of it is that we 

 cannot do so. 



Voila tout ! That is the suggestion ; speculative if you will, but not 

 as it seems to me unscientific. 



A few words in conclusion to present the matter from a some- 

 what different point of view. Consciousness exists : of that there is 

 no doubt. How did it come to exist ? There seem three possible 

 answers to this question, (i) It was directly created in man, or in 

 some lower organism from which man has been evolved. (2) It has 

 been directly evolved from energy. (3) It has been evolved, as I have 

 suggested, from infra-consciousness. 



Now the first answer, that of special creation, is, in my opinion, a 

 logically tenable one, and one with which I have sincere sympathy. I 

 do not hold it myself, because it does not seem to me either the highest or 

 the most probable view of the matter ; but if others hold it on these 

 grounds, so let it be ; and these remarks apply in due degree to the mode 

 of origin of organic nature, and of man. With the second answer, I 

 am in distinct and direct antagonism. I do not think it has a single 

 genuine fact of observation or a single rational inference from obser- 

 vation in its favour. Its supporters may be left to make out a case 

 for it if they can. The third answer is that which I hold and advocate. 

 If, then, these three answers exhaust the logical possibilities of the 

 case, and if the second is inadmissible through default of evidence in 

 its favour, we are left in presence of the first and third. Either 

 special creation or evolution from infra-consciousness, there is no 

 other alternative. Uterum honim mavis accipe. 



C. Lloyd Morgan. 



