366 THE STOEY OF THE EARTH AND MAI?. 



constituting a "new departure" in creation. Contri- 

 vance and inventive power, enabling him to utilise 

 the objects and forces of nature, replace in him the 

 material powers bestowed on lower animals. Obvi- 

 ously the structure of the human being is related to 

 this, and so related to it as to place man in a different 

 category altogether from any other animal. 



This consideration makes the derivation of man 

 from brutes difficult to imagine. None of these 

 latter appear even able to conceive or understand 

 the modes of life and action of man. They do not 

 need to attempt to emulate his powers, for they are 

 themselves provided for in a different manner. They 

 have no progressive nature like that of man. Their 

 relations to things without are altogether limited to 

 their structures and instincts. Man's relations are 

 limited only by his powers of knowing and under- 

 standing. How then is it possible to conceive of an 

 animal which is, so to speak, a mere living machine, 

 parting with the physical contrivances necessary to 

 its existence, and assuming the new role of intelligence 

 and free action ? 



This becomes still more striking if we adopt the 

 view usually taken by evolutionists, that primitive 

 man was a ferocious and carnivorous creature, warring 

 with and overcoming the powerful animals of the Post- 

 glacial period, and contending with the rigours of a 

 severe climate. This could certainly not be inferred 

 from his structure, interpreted by that of the lower 

 animals, which would inevitably lead to the conclusion 



