V. 



The Dawning of Consciousness. 



ERE we arrive at one of the most 

 wonderful moments in the history 



J of creation, the moment of the 

 first faint dawning of consciousness, the 

 foreshadowing of the true life of the soul. 

 Whence came the soul we no more know 

 than we know whence came the universe. 

 The primal origin of consciousness is hid- 

 den in the depths of the bygone eternity. 

 That it cannot possibly be the product of 

 any cunning arrangement of material par- 

 ticles is demonstrated beyond peradventure 

 by what we now know of the correlation of 

 physical forces. 4 The Platonic view of the 

 soul, as a spiritual substance, an effluence 

 from Godhood, which under certain con- 

 ditions becomes incarnated in perishable 

 forms of matter, is doubtless the view 



