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caused by the presence of that elusive sprite, 

 Ariel-Psj T che, who is properly the connecting 

 as well as propelling principle, and who has 

 the habit of being specially active at the im- 

 portant transitions of evolution. 



In this connection the question persists in 

 always returning: Has our Human Form 

 then attained its maximum of development? 

 Is the future man, as long as the sun lasts, to 

 be quite like us? This would mean that the 

 outer evolution of animal Forms has practi- 

 cally come to a close, that the Psyche has 

 reached her culminant manifestation in the 

 Physis, that the artist working over the plas- 

 tic life-stuff, has succeeded in producing his 

 masterpiece after the labor of at least one 

 hundred million of years (as some geologists 

 reckon). Earth's shape-building Titan, the 

 Prometheus of Nature has now modeled his 

 ideal in the Human Form, the prototype of 

 the highest beauty, and doubtless the visible 

 presentation of himself, insofar as he can be 

 moulded into finite limits. 



There are many signs, however, that this 

 outer evolution of the Physis is to be follow- 

 ed by the inner or pure evolution of the 

 Psyche, who no longer finds the plasticity of 

 the life-stuff adequate to her self-expression. 

 A sort of fixity of the Human Form bas taken 

 place, so that there is little difference be- 



