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man's natural powers.' Following up certain distinc- 

 tions between 'soul' and 'spirit' drawn by the 

 Apostle Paul in his tripartite division of man, Pro- 

 fessor Stokes, somewhat in keeping with Dr. Car- 

 penter, assumes an ' Ego, which, on the one hand, 

 is not to be identified with thought, which may exist 

 while thought is in abeyance, and which, with the 

 future body of which the Christian religion speaks, 

 may be the medium of continuity of thought. . . . 

 What the nature of this body might be we do not 

 know ; but we are pretty distinctly informed that 

 it would be something very different from that of 

 our present body, very different in its properties and 

 functions, and yet no less our own than our present 

 body.' ' Words, words, words,' as Hamlet says. 



Reference has been made in some fulness to Mr. 

 Wallace's limitations of the theory of natural selec- 

 tion in the case of man's mental faculties. We must 

 now pursue this somewhat in detail, reminding the 

 reader of Mr. Wallace's admission that, ' provision- 

 ally, the laws of variation and natural selection . . . 

 may have brought about, first, that perfection of 

 bodily structure in which man is so far above all 

 other animals, and, in co-ordination with it, the 

 larger and more developed brain by means of which 

 he has been able to subject the whole animal and 

 vegetable kingdoms to his service.' But, although 

 Mr. Wallace rejects the theory of man's special 

 creation as ' being entirely unsupported by facts, as 

 well as in the highest degree improbable,' he con- 

 tends that it does not necessarily follow that 'his 

 mental nature, even though developed part passu 

 with his physical structure, has been developed by 



