NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



to the psychical, protoplasm giv- 

 ing way to psychoplasni. 



FOUKTH STEP IK LIFE, 

 The Kingdom of the Spiritual 

 Man. — Now other ages elapsed. 

 The natural man evolved a higher 

 and higher degree of perfection, 

 evolution finally ceasing along the 

 lines of the coarser physical man, 

 the direction becoming wholly 

 psychic, immensely developing 

 that portion of the brain which is 

 the organ of the psychic powers.* 



of one another," but he accompanied 

 this statement with these words: "I 

 really know nothing, and never hope 

 to know anything, of the steps by which 

 the passage from molecular movement 

 to states of consciousness is effected." 



* Reasoning upon "the dawning of 

 consciousness " in his " Destiny of Man " 

 John Fiske points out that the psychic 

 power depends upon the upper and 

 outer portions of the brain — " the cere- 

 brum and the cerebellum." These are 

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