GENESIS OF MAN, MORALLY 



That we may well appreciate the solid consis- 

 tency of the entire argument concerning the 

 Genesis of Man, let us therefore contemplate 

 in a single view its various factors. 



We have seen that the progress from brute 

 to man has been but slightly characterized by 

 change in general bodily structure in compari- 

 son with the enormous change which has been 

 wrought in the cerebrum, and in those highest 

 psychical functions which stand in correlation 

 with the condition of the cerebrum. We have 

 seen that the development of these highest psy- 

 chical functions, in all their wondrous variety 

 and complexity, has consisted at bottom in the 

 increase of the power of mentally representing 

 objects and relations remote from sense. By 

 the reiterated testimony of many diverse kinds 

 of illustrative facts, we have been convinced 

 that in mere quantity of representative capacity, 

 with its infinitely various consequences, the civi- 

 lized man surpasses the lowest savage by a far 

 greater interval than that by which the lowest 

 savage surpasses the highest ape; just as the 

 gulf between the cerebral capacity of the Eng- 

 lishman and that of the non-Aryan dweller in 

 Hindustan is six times greater than the gulf 

 which similarly divides the non-Aryan Hindu 

 from the gorilla. And we have indicated in 

 sundry ways how this increase in representative 

 capacity, itself a prerequisite to any high de- 



