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some share of his purpose, and to introduce the higher 

 animals to some share in his work. This inferior 

 type of Mind, recognised as belonging to the higher 

 animals, cannot be accounted for by evolution from 

 sensory apparatus, any more than rational power can 

 be thus explained. Mind in animal is the beginning 

 of a new order in the history of Nature, as certainly 

 as was the appearance of organic life itself, at a vastly 

 earlier period. 



Guided by the conclusions reached in course of this 

 inquiry, conclusions negative and positive, destruc 

 tive and constructive, we are enabled to form an 

 enlarged conception of the history of Nature as an 

 orderly system. Evolution has turned attention on 

 different phases of the origin of existence on the earth. 

 It helps us better to see how varied these origins have 

 been. We have seen that Darwin formally declares 

 that he has nothing to do with the origin of life 

 itself ; and further, that he has nothing to do with the 

 origin of the mental powers/ 1 We may be assured that 

 he had thoroughly gauged the vast range of data at 

 command, before he formally announced these reserva 

 tions as to the origins of Life and Mind. In accord 

 ance with these declarations, is the acknowledged in 

 sufficiency of a theory of Evolution to account for life 

 itself, whether it be organic or spiritual. Evolution 

 stands before us as an impressive reality in the history 

 of Nature. But this Evolution is only a limited cycle, 

 within the greater cycle of Being and its History. 



Beyond this inference, evidence leads clearly to the 

 conclusion, in which we gather up the results of our 

 survey of the orderly system in the midst of which we 



1 Origin of Species, p. 191. 



