XII.] THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 303 



" On this view of his special attributes, we may admit 

 ' that he is indeed a being apart.' Man has not only escaped 

 ' Natural Selection ' himself, but he is actually able to take 

 away some of that power from Nature which before his ap- 

 pearance she universally exercised. We can anticipate the 

 time when the earth will produce only cultivated plants 

 and domestic animals ; when man's selection shall have sup- 

 planted ' Natural Selection ; ' and when the ocean will be 

 the only domain in which that power can be exerted." 



Baden Powell 64 observes on this subject : " The relation ; : ^ 

 of the animal man to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual 

 man, resembles that of a crystal slumbering in its native 

 quarry to the same crystal mounted in the polarizing appa- 

 ratus of the philosopher. The difference is not in physical 

 Nature, but in investing that Nature with a new and higher 

 application. Its continuity with the material world remains/ * 

 the same, but a new relation is developed in it, and it claims 

 kindred with ethereal matter and with celestial light." 



This well expresses the distinction between the merely 

 physical and the hyperphysical natures of man, and the sub- 

 sumption of the former into the latter which dominates it. 



The same author in speaking of man's moral and spiritual 

 nature says, 66 " The assertion in its very nature and essence 

 refers wholly to a DIFFERENT ORDER OF THINGS, apart from 

 and transcending any material ideas whatsoever." Again 68 

 he adds, " In proportion as man's moral superiority is held 

 to consist in attributes not of a material or corporeal kind ( 

 or origin, it can signify little how his physical nature may 

 have originated." 



Now physical science, as such, has nothing to do with 

 the soul of man, which is hyperphysical. That such an en- 

 tity exists, that the correlated physical forces go through 

 their Protean transformations, have their persistent ebb and 



64 " Unity of Worlds," Essay ii., ii., p. 247. 



65 Ibid., Essay i., ii., p. 76. 66 Ibid., Essay iii., iv., p. 466. 



