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general could have been derived from animals by 

 development, language presents no difficulty. Lan- 

 guage is impossible without a considerable degree of 

 intelligence, and intelligence is impossible without 

 language. Each has been the result of a slow 

 growth. 



Great stress has been laid upon consciousness as a 

 distinctive factor of the human intelligence as com- 

 pared with that of the brute. But it is hardly neces- 

 sary to say that nothing is known about this factor. 

 We know that we possess consciousness, but we 

 know nothing as to this in animals. Memory cer- 

 tainly implies a certain amount of consciousness, 

 and animals possess memory. There is about as 

 much evidence for its existence in some animals as 

 in some people. Consider, for instance, a low 

 savage woman whose sole thoughts in life are 

 eating, sleeping, and producing children. She gives 

 no evidence of any consciousness beyond that of 

 existence, which even dogs possess. Evolutionists 

 tell us, too, that it is no more difficult to say when 

 consciousness comes into the human race than to 

 say when it is developed in the child. The infant 

 has certainly less consciousness than animals, and 

 no one can say when it appears in life. Just as it 

 develops in the child as a result of contact with the 

 world, so it has developed in the human race. Here, 

 again, development is a repetition of past history. 



Very much stress has been laid upon man's power 

 to improve, for here does a difference between man 

 and the brute manifest itself in a remarkable man- 

 ner. Unlimited power of improvement in man, and 



