INTRODUCTION 



ceasing to modify the body expended itself on the 

 growth of the brain that was needed for the develop- 

 ment of the higher energies brought by the Ether, 

 producing, finally, rational Man. The traces of his 

 once arboreal life are yet borne by him, and from 

 time to time reappear, through atavism, evidences of 

 his once savage and even brutal nature. If men 

 were early taught to recognize these traits for what 

 they are, and seek to conquer and remove them, many 

 a worthless life might become a worthy one. 



The narrative given of the Evolution of Knowledge 

 has been thus far absolutely from the point of view 

 of strictly scientific observation and empiricism ; 

 phenomena have been considered as manifestations of 

 force and energy in various forms, and under laws or 

 conditions of exact and constant uniformity, open to 

 investigation and to more or less perfect understand- 

 ing. It is the only way that the Path of Evolution 

 should be or can be studied. 



Yet in all directions that we seek to pass we meet 

 with the evidences of the existence of a wise, intelli- 

 gent, all-sustaining VOLITION, in whom all things 

 begin and end, who is the source of life and the giver 

 of all good ! 



The Philosophy of Evolution teaches a "different 

 Teleology from that of the metaphysician or theo- 

 logian. It shows that the arrangements for life and 



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