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the increase of plasticity in the Psyche. In 

 the almost stationary body of the genus homo 

 (excepting the brain, which keeps enlarging) 

 there is an evolutionary line of mental forms 

 from the lowest Australasian to the highest 

 Caucasian, comparable to the graded shapes 

 of the animal kingdom. One biologist has 

 declared that these variations of intellect in 

 the one almost unvarying human shape are 

 relatively greater than the whole gamut of 

 the vertebrates, from the Fishes to highest 

 Primates. The proposition has been made to 

 have a new internal classification by the 

 standard of mind into species, genera, fam- 

 ilies, orders. Taking the races of .men to- 

 gether from the lowest to the best, we observe 

 a line of psychical forms of the greatest va- 

 riety, in one nearly invariable organism. 



It would seem, then, that the Psyche, hav- 

 ing quite lost its evolutionary power over the 

 Physis, has turned back upon itself and pro- 

 poses henceforth to evolve that. In other 

 words psychical evolution has now evolved 

 itself in its own right, capping physical evo- 

 lution, and is evidently going to have a long 

 career in the future. To be sure there is the 

 racial chasm between the far inferior and the 

 far superior man, and this chasm in certain 

 directions seems quite impassable already, 

 and is possibly widening. But in the coming 



