82 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



evolution reserve to the man of the future ? " This 

 is of great importance, because the longer man 

 delays penetrating and perfecting himself through 

 the great teaching which is given by the theory of 

 evolution, the longer will his pain and miseries 

 endure. 



Nothing is further from my mind than the animal 

 organisation step by step ; suffice it to observe that 

 the same regularity which we have noticed up to 

 now in form and number, is to be discovered 

 histologically in the body of every animal and man 

 in every tissue, and in every one of the elements of 

 these tissues, and in the most varied cells of man. 

 In every one of them, from the noble psychic cell 

 to the conjunctive, we can find the affiliation or 

 series of affiliations which lead us, as in mathematics, 

 to find its genesis in a single point of departure 

 the cell. 



All this that has been set forth, from the genesis 

 of the nervous system up to this point, has no other 

 object than to establish the bases on which to rest 

 one of the piers of the bridge by which we contend 

 we can pass from the universal energy to the super- 

 organic evolution. 



The object before us is to prove that the plan 

 of unity and mechanism on which Nature proceeds, 

 whilst legitimatising the law of evolution, making 



