4 6 MODERN IDEAS OF EVOLUTION 



tinuity of evolution. First, he admits that we cannot 

 ccount for the introduction of life at first, because we 

 now no way in which mere chemical combination 

 can produce living protoplasm. Here, he says, * we 

 have indications of a new power at work which we 

 may call Vitality. Secondly, he sees no cause in the 

 ([continuous evolution for the introduction of animal 

 ./sensation and consciousness. No attempt at expla- 

 &quot;nation by any modification of protoplasm can here 

 afford any mental satisfaction, or help us in any way 

 to a solution of the mystery. He sees a similar 

 break of continuity in the introduction of the higher 

 faculties of man. These faculties could not have 

 been developed by means of the same laws which 

 have determined the progressive development of the 

 organic world in general and also of man s physical 

 organism. These he refers to an unseen universe 

 to a world of spirit to which the world of matter is 

 altogether subordinate. ^Jf we refer these three great 

 steps to a spiritual Creator, and eliminate, on the other 

 side, the known development of varietal forms, the 

 field for the Darwinian evolution becomes greatly 

 narrowedj 



Romanes, the author of the other work, will listen 

 to no such compromises ; but, on the other hand, is 

 willing to admit a union of the Darwinian and 

 Lamarckian doctrines, besides sexual selection and 

 other factors, which are admitted also by Spencer. 

 His latest work is devoted to the bridging over the 



