COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



man race. As the same causes which physically 

 modify lower species have, for countless ages, 

 modified man directly and greatly in intelligence 

 and only indirectly and slightly in physical con- 

 stitution, it follows that mankind is destined 

 to advance during future ages in psychical at- 

 tributes, but is likely to undergo only slight 

 changes in outward appearance. It is by the 

 coordination of intellectual and moral relations 

 that man maintains himself in equilibrium with 

 the physical, intellectual, and moral relations 

 arising in his ever-changing environment. And 

 hence in the future, as in the recent past, the 

 dominant fact in the career of humanity is tiot 

 physical modification, but civilization. 



Here we are brought by a new route to the 

 verge of that theory of civilization which I have 

 sought to elucidate in the preceding chapters. 

 We have touched upon a grand truth, of which 

 it would be difficult to overrate the importance. 

 For we can now admit — not as a concession to 

 Mr. St. George Mivart, but as a legitimate re- 

 sult of our own method of inquiry — that when 

 " the totality of man's being " is taken into the 

 account, the difference between ape and mush- 

 room is less important than the difference be- 

 tween ape and man. And without conceding 

 aught to that superlative nonsense known as the 

 " doctrine of special creations," we may admit. 



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