jo The Destiny of Man. 



extreme physical similarity and enormous 

 psychical divergence between Man and the 

 group of animals to which he traces his 

 pedigree. It shows that when Human- 

 ity began to be evolved an entirely new 

 chapter in the history of the universe was 

 opened. Henceforth the life of the nas- 

 cent soul came to be first in importance, 

 and the bodily life became subordinated to 

 it. Henceforth it appeared that, in this 

 direction at least, the process of zoological 

 change had come to an end, and a process 

 of psychological change was to take its 

 place. Henceforth along this supreme line 

 of generation there was to be no further 

 evolution of new species through physical 

 variation, but through the accumulation of 

 psychical variations one particular species 

 was to be indefinitely perfected and raised 

 to a totally different plane from that on 

 which all life had hitherto existed. Hence- 

 forth, in short, the dominant aspect of ev- 

 olution was to be not the genesis of spe- 

 cies, but the progress of Civilization. 



