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bodily organs — were now lavished mainly upon the 

 Brain. The gains accumulated with accelerating 

 velocity ; and by sheer superiority and fitness for its 

 work, the Intellect rose to commanding power, and 

 entered into final possession of a monopoly which 

 can never be disturbed. 



Now this means not only that an order of higher 

 animals has appeared upon the earth, but that an 

 altogether new page in the history of the universe 

 has begun to be written. It means nothing less 

 than that the working of Evolution has changed its 

 course. Once it was a physical universe, now it is 

 a psychical universe. And to say that the working 

 of Evolution has changed its course, and set its 

 compass in psychical directions, is to call attention 

 to the most remarkable fact in Nature. Nothing so 

 original or so revolutionary has ever been given to 

 science to discover, to ponder, or to proclaim. The 

 power of this event to strike and rouse the mind 

 will depend upon one's sense of what the working 

 of Evolution has been to the world ; but those who 

 realize this even dimly will see that no emphasis of 

 language can exaggerate its significance. Let im- 

 agination do its best to summon up the past of 

 Nature. Beginning with the panorama of the 

 Nebular Hypothesis, run the eye over the field 

 of Palaeontology, Geology, Botany, and Zoology. 



