NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



From this type-life sprang the 

 races of mankind. More and 

 more with each succeeding king- 

 dom evolution has changed its di- 

 rection upward from the physical 



be in any sense the products of matter. " 

 —Idem, p. 109. 



"It would be immeasurably inter- 

 esting to gaze within and follow the 

 processes of such a cerebral mechanism, 

 as we observe the operations of a cal- 

 culating-machine. It is all through 

 and forever inconceivable that a num- 

 ber of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, ni- 

 trogen, oxygen, and so on, shall be 

 other than indifferent as to how they 

 are disposed and how they will be 

 moved. It is utterly inconceivable 

 how consciousness shall arise from 

 their joint action." — Dubois-Reymond, 

 " JJeber die Grenzen des Naturerken- 

 nens," p. 42. 



Huxley, November, 1871, Contempo- 

 rary Revieic, said: "In my belief con- 

 sciousness and molecular action are 

 capable of being expressed by one an- 

 other, just as heat and molecular action 

 are capable of being expressed in terms 

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