jro The Destiny of Man. 



becomes more complicated and various, so 

 that reflex action can no longer determine 

 all its movements and the higher nerve- 

 centres begin to be evolved, that the dawn- 

 ing of consciousness is reached. But with 

 the growth of the higher centres the ca- 

 pacities of action become so various and 

 indeterminate that definite direction is 

 not given to them until after birth. The 

 creature begins life as an infant, with its 

 partially developed cerebrum representing 

 capabilities which it is left for its individual 

 experience to bring forth and modify. 



