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with many minarets, none of them capable of being 

 prolonged — while the central dome is completed by 

 the structure of man. The development of the ani- 

 mal kingdom is the development of intelligence 

 chained to matter; the animals in which the nervous 

 system has reached the greatest perfection are the 

 vertebrates, and in Man that part of the nervous 

 system which is the organ of intelligence reaches, as I 

 have sought to show, the highest development pos- 

 sible to a vertebrate animal, while intelligence has 

 grown to reflection and volition. On these grounds, 

 I believe, not that Man is the highest possible in- 

 telligence, but that the human body is the highest 

 form of human life possible, subject to the condi- 

 tions of matter on the surface of the globe, and 

 that the structure completes the design of the animal 

 kingdom." ^ 



Never was the body of Man greater than with 

 this sentence of suspension passed on it, and never 

 was Evolution more wonderful or more beneficent 

 than when the signal was given to stop working 

 at Man's animal frame. This was an era in the 

 world's history. For it betokened nothing less than 

 that the cycle of matter was now complete, and the 

 one prefatory task of the ages finished. Henceforth 

 the Weltanschauung is for ever changed. From this 

 ^ Journal of Anatomy, Vol. xviil., p. 362. 



