38 THE ORIGIN OP CREATION. 



Although the matter of this earth has been endowed with 

 atomagnetic properties, we have no right to say all other worlds 

 are endowed with exactly the same force ; for we would thus be 

 limiting the power of the Creator. If, then, matter can be 

 endowed with different kinds of properties, and we find it to 

 be so, there is no limit that we can ascribe to the properties and 

 combinations of matter. 



If therefore man is endowed with an animal mind, possessing 

 the properties of the matter of this earth, in character similar 

 to the beast ; who can say that he is not endowed with an 

 additional divine mind, not included in our earth's material 

 properties at all ? 



If we say that the beast's mind is as perfect as the properties 

 of this earth can make it, and that the brutes worship no 

 superior being ; we must admit that man has a Divine mind, in 

 addition to his earthly mind, because he believes in and 

 worships a superior being. 



In Agassiz's lecture on " Men and Monkeys " delivered in 

 1867, we have a partial confirmation of our theory. He 

 says : " Were we not made in the image of the Creator, did 

 we not possess a spark of that divine spirit which is a godlike 

 inheritance, why should we understand nature 1 Why is it 

 that nature is not to us a sealed book 1 It is because we are 

 akin to the world, not only the physical and the animal world, but 

 to the Creator himself, that we can read the world, and under- 

 stand that it comes from God." Agassiz, however, while thus 

 obviously suggesting two different minds, yet did not grasp the 

 idea in all its fullness, and consequently is weak and erroneous 

 in many of his arguments. 



That the animal mind when properly cultivated in man, is 



