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awakening keen remorse ; for to him whose mental habits 

 have heen nurtured by scientific studies, the principles of 

 action prescribed by the need for harmonizing inner with 

 outer relations are, in the truest sense, the decrees of God. 



And now, having reached the terminus of our inquiry, let 

 us look back over the course for a moment, that we may 

 see the character of the progress we have achieved. Such a 

 retrospect is here especially needed, because the complexity 

 of our subject has been so great, and the range of our illus 

 trations so wide, that the cardinal points in our argument 

 have perhaps run some risk of getting overlaid and con 

 cealed from view, and in particular it may not be sufficiently 

 obvious how completely we have attained the object set 

 before us as the goal of the present chapter and its pre 

 decessor, namely, to explain the genesis of the psychical 

 forces which wrought the decisive change from animality 

 to humanity. That we may well appreciate the solid con 

 sistency of the entire argument concerning the Genesis of 

 Man, let us therefore contemplate in a single view its 

 various factors. 



We have seen that the progress from brute to man has 

 been but slightly characterized by change in general bodily 

 structure in comparison with the enormous change which 

 has been wrought in the cerebrum, and in those highest 

 psychical functions which stand in correlation with the con 

 dition of the cerebrum. We have seen that the develop 

 ment of these highest psychical functions, in all their 

 wondrous variety and complexity, has consisted at bottom 

 in the increase of the power of mentally representing objects 

 and relations remote from sense. By the reiterated testimony 

 of many diverse kinds of illustrative facts, we have been 

 convinced that in mere quantity of representative capacity, 

 with its infinitely various consequences, the civilized man 

 surpasses the lowest savage by a far greater interval than 



