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out the length of their tether and can go no 

 further. When the plan of the world was made, 

 to speak teleologically, these types of life were 

 assigned their place and limit, and there they have 

 remained. If it were wanted to convey the im- 

 pression that Nature had some large end in view, 

 that she was not drifting aimlessly towards a 

 general higher level, it could not have been done 

 more impressively than by everywhere placing on 

 the field of Science these fixed points, these in- 

 numerable consummations, these clean-cut mountain 

 peaks, which for millenniums have never grown. 

 Even as there is a plan in the parts, there is a 

 plan in the whole. 



But the most certain of all these " terminal 

 points " in the evolution of Creation is the body of 

 Man. Anatomy places Man at the head of all 

 other animals that were ever made ; but what is 

 infinitely more instructive, with him, as we have 

 just seen, the series comes to an end. Man is not 

 only the highest branch, but the highest possible 

 branch. Take as a last witness the testimony of 

 anatomy itself with regard to the human brain. 

 Here the fact is not only re-affirmed but the 

 rationale of it suggested in terms of scientific law. 

 " The development of the brain is in connection 

 with a whole system of development of the head 



