XIV. 



End of the Working of Natural Selection upon 

 Man. Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance. 



S regards the significance of Man's 

 position in the universe, this grad- 

 ual elimination of strife is a fact 

 of utterly unparalleled grandeur. Words 

 cannot do justice to such a fact. It means 

 that the wholesale destruction of life, 

 which has heretofore characterized evolu- 

 tion ever since life began, and through 

 which the higher forms of organic ex- 

 istence have been produced, must pres- 

 ently come to an end in the case of the 

 chief of God's creatures. It means that 

 the universal struggle for existence, hav- 

 ing succeeded in bringing forth that con- 

 summate product of creative energy, the 

 Human Soul, has done its work and will 

 presently cease. In the lower regions of 



