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superiority and fitness for its work, the Intellect rose 

 to commanding power, and entered into final posses 

 sion of a monopoly which can never be disturbed. 



Now this means not only that an order of higher 

 animals has appeared upon the earth, but that an 

 altogether new page in the history of the universe has 

 begun to be written. It means nothing less than that 

 the working of Evolution has changed its course. 

 Once it was a physical universe, now it is a psychical 

 universe. And to say that the working of Evolution 

 has changed its course, and set its compass in psy 

 chical directions, is to call attention to the most 

 remarkable fact in Nature. Nothing so original or so 

 revolutionary has ever been given to science to dis 

 cover, to ponder, or to proclaim. The power of this 

 event to strike and rouse the mind will depend upon 

 one s sense of what the working of Evolution hac 

 been to the world ; but those who realize this even 

 dimly will see that no emphasis of language can exag 

 gerate its significance. Let imagination do its best to 

 summon up the past of Nature. Beginning with the 

 panorama of the Nebular Hypothesis, run the eye over 

 the field of Palaeontology, Geology, Botany, and 

 Zoology. Watch the majestic drama of Creation 

 unfolding, scene by scene and act by act. Realize 

 that one power, and only one, has marshalled the 

 figures for this mighty spectacle ; that one hand, and 

 only one, has carried out these transformations ; that 

 one principle, and only one, has controlled each sub 

 sidiary plot and circumstance ; that the same great 

 patient unobtrusive law has guided and shaped the 

 whole from its beginnings in bewilderment and chaos 

 to its end in order, harmony, and beauty. Then watch 



