624 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



Fuegian, or a Tasmanian the gap is a wide one. Can this be 

 explained, however? We would reply that it is wholly due to 

 two causes: first, the increased use of the forelimbs by higher 

 monkeys till these became specialized hands; and, second, the 

 extinction — as so often happens to intergrading and conjunctive 

 links in a great transition process — of the intermediate types 

 that showed the transition proceeding. But the remains of 

 Eoanthropus, of the Neanderthal, the Aurignac, and other transi- 

 tion human types indicate that exactly such desiderated links 

 once existed. 



Now, from the standpoint of mentality evolution, what alone 

 or mainly separates and elevates primitive man above even the 

 highest anthropoids is his increased capacity for distance-per- 

 ception, or as we may term it telecognitation ; then his succeed- 

 ing power of distance-conception, or telecogitation as we may 

 name it. Steady exercise of these during long millenia of the 

 past has enabled superman to reach out during the^past half 

 century to the conception of an infinitely extended stellar 

 space, in which our solar system constitutes but a few stellar 

 atoms relatively speaking. Such also has enabled him to grasp 

 the existence of an infinitely minute electron system, and to 

 explain the relation of infinitesimally small amounts of energy 

 in such. 



As stage by stage of this telecognitation and then telecogi- 

 tation are traced, we gradually recognize that the pathway 

 opened up has been due to cooperative and reacting activity of 

 hand and brain, with a resulting high condensation and work 

 perfectioning of energy, that originated the state of energy 

 that we have termed the spiritic. For in its highest expression 

 this pathway has slowly but none the less surely enabled evolv- 

 ing man to grasp the conception of his own existence as being 

 one with, and dependent on, a great energy, spiritus, motion, 

 or power of the universe, which has energized, still energizes, 

 and steadily evolves man to ever better and higher estate. 



This upward advance might be roughly outlined as follows. 

 Primitive man, like the higher anthropoid apes, largely occu- 

 pied a limited area of action, both as an individual and as one 



