CHAPTER XVI. 

 THE EVOLUTION OF MIND. 



SECTION I. 

 THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 



WHEN a being arose to whom it was given to say 

 " I AM," there appeared in the cosmos the most 

 marvellous of its phenomena. "On earth there is 

 nothing great but man : in man there is nothing great 

 but mind." The science of mind lies at the founda- 

 tion of philosophy. In any rightly ordered attempt 

 to combine all knowledge in one system, self-conscious 

 intelligence is the first subject of study. It is incum- 

 bent on the evolutionist to set consciousness in its 

 place in that vast flow of change, and show how it has 

 arisen through the operation of the great cosmic law. 

 A philosophy may be fairly tested by the mode in 

 which it deals with this fundamental question. The 

 issue in the case of evolutionism is not doubtful ; in- 

 competent to answer any vital question in the realm 

 of inorganic matter or organized life, the evolution 

 hypothesis is wholly inadequate to the task of solving 

 the problems that arise in the investigation of the 



intellectual and moral nature of man. 



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