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of the term will be constantly reappearing. The 

 reason of a child is never the same in kind as that 

 of the brute, for from the very first it is potentially 

 that which the brute's never can be. " The greatest 

 of all distinctions in biology," Mr. Romanes says, 

 " when it first arises, is seen to lie in its potentiality 

 rather than in its origin" Granted ; but it is none 

 the less a difference of kind. The distinction 

 between the adult and the rudimentary intelligence 

 of man is a difference of degree ; but between that 

 of the brute and the baby it is a difference of kind. 

 Mr. Romanes thinks little apparently of " the mere 

 fact that it is the former phase (of self-conscious- 

 ness) alone which occurs in the brute, while in the 

 man, after having rim a parallel course of develop- 

 ment^ this phase passes into the other ; " but it is 

 just this "mere fact," the power, viz., of passing 

 into the other which makes it from the first human 

 and not merely animal. And Mr. Romanes has 

 done good service in showing us what man is by 

 his minute comparison of him with what he is not. 



NOTE 



ON EVOLUTION AND THE FALL. 1 



There is one difficulty in connection with evolu- 

 tion which, for obvious reasons, is not dealt with 



1 Extracted from Oxford House Papers, No. XXI., Evolution 

 and Christianity, by A. L. M., 1889. Rivington. 



