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that I think the similarity ought fairly to be taken as 

 direct evidence of a genetic continuity between them. 



"And so it is with regard to instincts, such as have 

 reference to nutrition, self preservation, reproduction and 

 rearing of progeny." 



No one will venture to dispute the fact that all these 

 instincts are identical with those which we observe in 

 the lower animals. Language has arisen from sign mak- 

 ing, etc. As man has come up thru the same stages of 

 development as the other animals, and as only a few cen- 

 turies ago he lived the life of an animal as animals live 

 today, it is only natural that his thinking organization 

 would be on the same plan, and that he would have the 

 same nerve centres, which would produce the same ac- 

 tions and emotions. 



Haeckel, describing the brain or thinking machinery of 

 man states : "The phronema is the organ of thought in 

 the same sense in which we consider the eye the organ 

 of vision, or the heart the central organ of circulation. 

 With the destruction of the organ its function disappears. 



Between these central organs of sense lie the intellec- 

 tual or thought organs, the instruments of presentation 

 and thought, judgment and consciousness, intellect and 

 reason ; they are called thought-centres, or association 

 centres, because the various impressions received from 

 the sense centres are associated, combined and united in 

 harmonious thought by them." 



Then in another place he makes the following state- 

 ment, showing how the human mind is deceived and 

 tangled up with all kinds of foolish ideas : 



"Modern spook-seeking has no more value than me- 

 diaeval magic, babalism, astrology, necromancy, dream- 

 interpretation, and invocation of the devil. We must put 

 at the same stage of superstition the spiritism aad occult- 



