The Logic of Evolution 



also and far more how to live. Getting will 

 become a means of being, not the end in itself 

 which it often is to-day. Knowledge of some- 

 thing more important and higher than mere ma- 

 terial things will be cultivated. The higher 

 knowledge better used will keep before the mind 

 stronger motives which will stimulate the exer- 

 cise of the highest powers, and thus lead to the 

 largest life. 



We see that as animals and men pass from one 

 stage to another, new and higher powers suc- 

 cessively dominate life. These powers usually 

 have arisen from small and weak beginnings in 

 the service of lower powers. The first business 

 of animals or men at each stage is to make the 

 highest power supreme and regal in the organ- 

 ism; to allow it no longer to be subservient to 

 anything else, but to make everything else sub- 

 serve it. This has been the history of the suc- 

 cessive dynasties, which have characterized suc- 

 cessive stages of progress and raised life to the 

 human plane. 



The human plane of life and development 

 must be characterized by the rise to supreme 

 control of powers and ideals which were far 

 from being ruling powers in the life of animals 



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