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is working hard at it ; but owing to its intricacy 

 and delicacy the process requires much time, and 

 till all is ready the babe must remain a thing. 

 And why does the monkey-brain get ready first ? 

 Because it is an easier machine to make. And 

 why should it be easier to make ? Because it is 

 only required to do the life-work of an Animal; the 

 other has to do the life-work of a Man. Mental 

 Evolution, in fact, here steps in, and makes an 

 unexpected contribution to the ethical development 

 of the world. 



An apparatus for controlling one of the lower 

 animals can be turned out from the workshop of 

 Nature sometimes in a day. The wheels are few, 

 the works are simple, the connections require little 

 time for adjustment or correction. Everything that 

 a humble organism will do has been done a million 

 times by its parents, and already the faculties have 

 been carefully instructed by heredity and will auto- 

 matically repeat the whole life and movement of 

 their race. But when a Man is made, it is not an 

 automaton that is made. This being will do new 

 things, think new thoughts, originate new ways of 

 life. His immediate ancestors have done the same, 

 but done some of them so seldom, and others of 

 them for so short a time, that heredity has failed 

 to notice them. For half the life therefore that 



