1 86 The Evolution Hypothesis. 



The operative cause is not the physical force alone, but 

 the physical force plus the feeling. 



To affirm that the modification of organisms is 

 carried on wholly according to the laws of the under- 

 lying absolute energy as revealed in matter and 

 motion, is most evidently an unproved and unprov- 

 able assumption. In animal life physical action can- 

 not be severed from feeling and studied and measured 

 apart ; for sensibility is a primary characteristic of a 

 sensitive organization. The manifestation of the 

 unknowable in feeling is as necessary to the forma- 

 tion or modification of animal organisms as the 

 redistribution of matter and motion, or the persist- 

 ence of force. 



Evolutionism once more fails us. The evolutionist 

 is unable to assign any knowable cause for the origin 

 of sentient life ; he cannot disclose its place in the 

 cosmos or its relations to the universal order : nor 

 does his hypothesis furnish an explanation of the 

 part which sentience plays in the shaping of organs,, 

 the growth of bodies, or those modifications of or- 

 ganic forms that have been wrought out in the course 

 of change. 



