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intelligence, (&) his sense of pleasure and pain, (c) his 

 complex and highly developed organism Putting aside 

 question of intelligence, what account does evolution give 

 of the organism and its sensibility ? Is the sense of pain 

 seeming only or real ? Where lies the source of the feel- 

 ing ? Suppose the universe composed of atoms and their 

 motions ; how does feeling arise ? Either the capacity 

 for, feeling is a property resident in atoms, or something 

 -exists other than matter In the former case the atoms 

 are monads, possessing properties other than dynamic ; 

 in the latter, we affirm the existence of concrete being 

 other than the forces manifested in atoms and their 

 motions A supra-dynamical element is introduced In 

 either case the dynamic doctrine is found defective Feel- 

 ing reveals another mode of being It can never have its 

 place assigned in an order dominated throughout by phy- 

 sical law When feeling appeared, the process of change 

 was profoundly modified It affects all modifications of 

 organisms The physical process plus the feeling deter- 

 mines the next process, and so on The feeling necessary 

 to the result The operative cause not physical force 

 alone, but physical force plus feeling Evolutionist unable 

 to assign any knowable cause to account for the origin of 

 sentient life Nor any explanation of the part of sentience 

 in working out modifications of organic forms, . . 178 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE ORIGIN OF ORGANIC FORMS. 



Vast multiformity in organized matter Evolution bound to 

 show that all forms must have sprung from one primordial 

 mode of living matter, and to show how Only on these 

 conditions can a philosophy of evolution be established 

 Facts divided into two classes, organisms as at present 

 known and those found in the geological record No direct 

 evidence of transition from lower to higher species 

 Gradual advancement from lower to higher forms through- 

 out the geological periods inevitable Science looks in 



