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with metal rods, it is not therefore metallic. Life 

 is associated with protoplasm, it is not therefore 

 albuminous. Instinct is linked with matter, but 

 it is not therefore material ; Intellect with animal 

 matter, but is not therefore animal. As we rise in 

 the scale of Nature we encounter new orders of 

 phenomena, Matter, Life, Mind, each higher than 

 that before it, each totally and forever different, yet 

 each using that beneath it as the pedestal for its 

 further progress. Associated with animal-matter — 

 how associated no psychology, no physiology, no 

 materialism, no spiritualism, has even yet begun to 

 hint — may there not have been from an early dawn 

 the elements of a future Mind ? Do the wide ana- 

 logies of Nature not make the suggestion worthy at 

 least of inquiry? The fact, to which there is no 

 exception, that all lesser things evolve, the sugges- 

 tion, which is daily growing into a further certainty, 

 that there is a mental evolution among animals from 

 the Coelenterate to the Ape ; the fact that the unfold- 

 ing of the Child-Mind is itself a palpable evolution ; 

 the infinitely more significant circumstance that the 

 Mind in a child seems to unfold in the order in 

 which it would unfold if its mental faculties were 

 received from the Animal world, and in the order in 

 which they have already asserted themselves in the 

 history of the race. These seem formidable facts on 



