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of man and the barely instinctive impulses of the lower 
creatures, that no one can see any connection between 
the two, unless there is some serious defect in his own 
mental or moral perceptions. Every instinct and convic- 
tion of the human mind rises in indignant repudiation of 
the theory of man’s descent. 
There are even among thoroughgoing Darwinians 
some who draw the line at this (necessary) application 
of the development idea. Wallace says, at the conclusion 
of his defense of Darwinism: “The faculties of man could 
not possibly have been developed by means of the same 
laws which have determined the progressive development 
of the world in general, and also of man’s physical or- 
ganism’—the human body. He finds in the origin of 
Mind clear indications of “an unseen universe—a world 
of spirit, to which the world of matter is altogether sub- 
ordinate.” (“Darwinism,”’ p. 320.) Yet the develop- 
ment of mind through merely physical forces is upheld 
to the present day by the majority of evolutionists. The 
doctrine is even found in public school texts. In Davis’ 
“Physical Geography,” a high-school text, we read page 
34t: 
“The greater intelligence of many land animals than 
of sea animals should also be regarded as a result of the 
development of land animals amid a greater variety of 
geographical conditions than is found in the seas... . 
The wonderful intelligence of man has been developed on 
the lands, because only on the lands is to be found the 
great variety of form, climate and products which can 
stimulate the development of high intelligence. It would 
have been as impossible for man to develop as an inhabi- 
tant of the dark and monotonous ocean floor as it has 
been for civilization to arise out of the frozen and lone- 
some lands of the Antarctic regions.” 
