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tirely upon sensations, or impressions. Berkeley con- 

 tended that everything is "mind, " or in the "mind. " 

 He conceded that things may exist outside the human 

 mind, but that all things exist, in the mind of God, or 

 in infinite "mind." 



EVOLUTION THE REAL MAKER OF CIVILIZATION. Such 

 civilization, as we have, is crystallized around the emo- 

 tions of fear, in the first instance, and affection, as sec- 

 ondary. But mingled with the subjective conception of 

 finality, and really underlying it, is the great natural 

 principle of evolution that had been, although unrecog- 

 nized as such, the natural force that had evolved the 

 brain of man, through all its heretofore uncertain, and 

 partial correspondence with natural phenomena, to its 

 present more complex correspondence, in spite of its 

 persistent hallucinations. As long as hallucinations 

 linger in man 's brain, the civilization is perhaps the best 

 we can expect. At least, the advocates of evolution must 

 assume that this artificial, and evanescent, but wide- 

 spread human orientation, (the present civilization, with 

 its hallucinations), is a condition, not incompatible, for 

 the time being, with the operation of natural law, in the 

 rapidly changing, and gradually enlarging, circle of hu- 

 man consciousness. In other words, it has its part to 

 do in the natural interchange of matter and motion, 

 which we call evolution. 



History is almost wholly a chronicle of the delusions, 

 that have controlled mankind. Some of these are 

 monarchy, imperialism, militarism, constant warfare, 

 almost universal slavery. Can it be that these were 

 merely the mobile, automatic expressions of the vary- 

 ing limitations of the human intellect? If so, of course, 

 they were better for the aggregate welfare, than the 

 ill adapted, an unfit higher condition of natural law 



