EVIDENCE PROVING THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE 



morrow will not be the man of to-day. Certain brains 

 of extra complexity give us our prominent men in 

 whatever department of life it may be. We erect 

 statues to their memory. The statue is only therefore 

 a presentation of one phase of his life. When shall 

 we say it is the copy of the man ? We generally take 

 it at the last phase of existence. Take an illustration. 

 There is a fine statue of Darwin at the South Kensing- 

 ton Museum. Why is Darwin represented as the old 

 man? Why not represent the infant? this was 

 Darwin, or the schoolboy this again was Darwin, or 

 the man in his very prime of life for this also was 

 Darwin. If we would do Darwin justice, there should 

 be perhaps thousands of statues, and all these would be 

 copies of Darwin ! 



As the changes are in the external body, so are they 

 in the internal, so also are they in the brain. The 

 thinking organs, the brain- cells, are always changing, 

 and as they change our minds change. The mind of 

 the infant does not exist. 1 It is the result of the 

 slow alteration of a material substance ; and as it 

 alters from day to day, so does its mind grow and 

 alter, hour by hour, day by day, The child does not 



1 " We all know that the new-born child has no consciousness, 

 110 knowledge of itself and of the objective world. Whoever has 

 children of his own, and follows their mental development can- 

 didly, cannot possibly deny that processes of biological evolution 

 are at work there. Just as all other functions of the body develop 

 in connection with their organs, so does the mind develop in connec- 

 tion with the brain. And this gradual development of the child's 

 mind is such a wonderful and beautiful phenomenon, that every 

 mother and every father with eyes to see takes unwearied delight in 

 observing it." (" The Evolution of Man," Professor Ernst Haeckel, 

 1883, vol. ii. p. 452.) 



