144 EVOLUTION AND MAN S PLACE IN NATURE 



Lotze, we say, In granting that the essence of the 

 soul is unknown, we do so only in a sense that includes 

 the impossibility of saying what would be the essence 

 of anything in the entire absence of the conditions 

 that are the exciting occasions of its manifestations. 1 



1 Microkosmus, B. II. chap. ii. 6 ; Elizabeth Hamilton s Transl., 

 vol. i. p. 190. 



