206 MAMMALIAN UKSl'EXT. [Lect. IX. 



Is there anytliing in the liiimaii organism of which 

 it can he said, "See, this is new?" No; "it Lath 

 ah'eacly heen in the ohl time that was before us." 



We modern English, I think, ought to l)e put 

 somewhere between the okl Greeks and the ancient 

 Jews in any chissification that shoukl l)e made of the 

 race, according to its mental characteristics. Tlie Jews 

 re(j[uired a "sign," the Greeks sought after wisdom; we 

 clamorously ask for the former, whilst groping after the 

 latter. It is just possil)le that with these mental modi- 

 fications the finest and happiest breed of Men may be 

 brought into l)eing after the long ages of human evolu- 

 tion, and that the latest birth of science will be that 

 which will satisfy and satiate the longings of this mixed 

 kind of Man. 



I see in every flower, in every insect, that wliich 

 absolutely transcends, not only the highest human skill, 

 l)ut our utmost efi'orts of thouoht and fliohts of imao-ina- 



o o o 



tion. These insects are highly complex organisms ; but 

 lower organisms are really as wonderful. I spent some 

 of the best years of my life in conjunction with scientific 

 friends in the study of the "Protozoa," or simple primary 

 animal forms, and we found that the apparently simple 

 flesh-stufl' or protoplasm of which these creatures are 

 formed could do such wonders of quasi-architectural 

 growth, as made all our human cleverness but as the 

 (cleverness of a speaking Fish or a wise Pig. 



Now the Protozoa end wliere we begin ; we are 



