Religion as a Factor in Human Evolution 693 



scale — are those also in which the social stimulus becomes 

 more and more prominent. But here the social stimulus, 

 through long continued action and reaction, has largely be- 

 come a social instinct. The moral acts that develop and 

 ensure the continuance of this social stimulus and later of 

 the social instinct are fundamentally the same with the moral 

 acts in man, as Lauder Lindsay, Romanes, and Parmelee have 

 considered. They represent the highest or social phase of 

 the cogitic life, and are acts of social expediency and satis- 

 faction. 



But in Man we believe that a higher and fundamentally 

 different plane or platform is being reached, that for con- 

 venience in past and future discussion we may call the spiritic. 



Slowly evolving out of and upon the moral or higher cogitic 

 platform, it has exhibited itself as the advancing religious 

 spirit in man. 



But here and now it may be asked: How does the mento- 

 moral social life differ from the spiritic or religious life in Man? 

 To this we would reply that the former develops only the 

 social relation of ''bear and forbear," so that the individual 

 life may be safer and more satisfymg against attack and de- 

 struction by surrounding agencies. The latter develops the 

 greatly higher social duty "that ye love one another" since 

 all look beyond themselves to some great ultimate Power of 

 advancing well-being with which they feel themselves linked, 

 and toward which they must place themselves in most satisfied 

 relation. Man, in striving earnestly to unfold to himself his 

 relation to such power or powers, has passed through suc- 

 cessively advancing religious phases till he reached the view 

 that the organisms which people the world itself, the cosmic 

 system, and the entire universe even are guided and energized 

 by one great ultimate Power, Principle, or Personality from 

 whom he has been derived, and to whom he must again return. 

 That power the religionist's rapid mental deduction called 

 Ormazd, Tlieos, God; the scientist, by more slow and exact 

 inductive, followed by deductive, method now calls in its omni- 

 present expression energy. 



