ANTHROPOMORPHIC THEISM 



correspondence with the world of phenomena. 

 Just as in the mental evolution of each individ- 

 ual there is preserved a certain degree of har- 

 mony with the mental evolution of contempo- 

 rary and surrounding individuals, so the total 

 evolution of intelligence has kept pace more or 

 less evenly with the changes of the environment 

 with which it has interacted. Sense after sense 

 has assumed distinct existence in response to 

 stimuli from without. One set of experiences 

 after another has been coordinated in harmony 

 with combinations existing without. Emotion 

 after emotion has been slowly generated in con- 

 formity with the necessities entailed by outward 

 circumstances. And thus the contemplating 

 mind and the world of phenomena contemplated 

 are, if I may so express it, tuned in mysterious 

 unison. 



Let us now inquire into the bearing of this 

 fact upon the origin and apparent justification 

 of the teleological theory. We have seen that 

 man has from the earliest times been wont to 

 project ideally his personality into the external 

 world, assimilating the forces of physical nature 

 to the forces displayed in his own volitions, 

 and with unrestrained fancy multiplying like- 

 nesses of his own intelligence as means whereby 

 to render comprehensible the agencies ever at 

 work around him. Stronger in the ages of pri^ 

 meval fetishism than at any subsequent time, 

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