A LIMIT TO EVOLUTION. 



rpHE limit to Evolution here referred to, is the limit which 

 -^ some persons assert and some deny to exist between 

 man and the lower animals. Granting, if only for argument's 

 sake, the truth of Evolution, can man have been evolved 

 from the lower animals, or must his origin have been due 

 to some different action from that by which animals arose ? 

 The great difference between man and the lower animals 

 consists not in his body, but in his mind. In order, there- 

 fore, to examine this question, we must begin by looking a 

 little carefully into our own minds, and by examining our own 

 acts and mental nature. 



Now we all know that we perceive ourselves, other people, 

 and a variety of objects about us. Also that we can recoUect 

 them and reason about them and express our opinions by 

 words or signs. This is what every sane man can do in 

 every country in the world. But besides these intellectual 

 endowments, we have certain other powers and capacities 

 which we ought very carefully to note. 



In the first place, we have aU a power of feeling (we 

 possess sensitivity), and we have many different kinds of 

 feelings, apart from our intellect. Thus we all have appetites 

 and desires, which, however they may be controlled hy 

 reason, are in no way due to reason any more than are 

 feelings of pleasure and pain, with which new-born babes 

 and even idiots are endowed. AVe do not need intellect in 



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