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she says ; " this Child-Life is Divine." And she is 

 right. But let her look again. That forehead, whose 

 is it ? It is hers. And the frown which darkened it 

 just now? Is hers also. And that which caused the 

 frown to darken, that something or nothing, behind 

 the forehead, that flash of pride, or scorn, or hate? 

 Alas, it is her very own. And as the years roll on, 

 and the budding life unfolds, there is scarcely a mood 

 or gesture or emotion that she does not know is bor- 

 rowed. But whence in turn did she receive them? 

 From an earlier mother. And she ? From a still 

 earlier mother. And she ? From the savage-mother 

 in the woods. And the savage-mother ? 



Shall we hesitate here ? We well may. So God- 

 like a gift is intellect, so wondrous a thing is con- 

 sciousness, that to link them with the animal world 

 seems to trifle with the profoundest distinctions in the 

 universe. Yet to associate these supersensuous things 

 with the animal kingdom is not to identify them with 

 the animal-body. Electricity is linked with metal 

 rods, it is not therefore metallic. Life is associated with 

 protoplasm, it is not therefore albuminous. Instinct is 

 linked with matter, but it is not therefore material ; 

 Intellect with animal matter, but is not therefore 

 animal. As we rise in the scale of Nature we en- 

 counter new orders of phenomena, Matter, Life, Mind, 

 each higher than that before it, each totally and for- 

 ever different, yet each using that beneath it as the 

 pedestal for its further progress. Associated with 

 animal-matter — how associated no psychology, no 

 physiology, no materialism, no spiritualism, has even 

 yet begun to hint — may there not have been from an 

 early dawn the elements of a future Mind ? Do the 



