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esses, unlocking series after series of cau- 

 sal agencies until a vast and complicated 

 result is reached, such as could by no pos- 

 sibility have been foreseen. The creation 

 of Man was one of these vast and compli- 

 cated results due to the unlocking of vari- 

 ous series of causal agencies ; and it was 

 the beginning of a deeper and mightier 

 difference in kind than any that slowly- 

 evolving Nature had yet witnessed. 



I have indicated, as the moment at 

 which the creation of mankind began, the 

 moment when psychical variations became 

 of so much more use to our ancestors 

 than physical variations that they were 

 seized and enhanced by natural selection, 

 to the comparative neglect of the latter. 

 Increase of intellectual capacity, in connec- 

 tion with the developing brain of a single 

 race of creatures, now became the chief 

 work of natural selection in originating 

 Man ; and this, I say, was the opening of 

 a new chapter, the last and most wonder- 

 Cul chapter, in the history of creation. But 



