32 EVOLUTIONS OF ORGANIZATION. 



tions are subjected in the vegetable kingdom to 

 the service of nutrition and reproduction ; while 

 in the animal kingdom nutrition and reproduc- 

 tion give way in importance to the develop- 

 ment of intelligence. And, however imperfectly 

 zoologists may yet agree as to the evolutions in 

 detail in different parts of the animal kingdom, it 

 is plain that in the human form an organism has 

 at last appeared constituting an abode of intelli- 

 gence such as exists in no other, and that in man 

 alone intelligence reaches the capability of ascend- 

 ing beyond the wants of the physical organism in 

 the contemplation of abstract truth. 



This organism, I repeat, has not improved with 

 the progress of discovery in modern science, but 

 was at least as complete in the heroes of antiquity 

 as in those of recent times. It is surely, then, an 

 assumption to suppose that evolution as distin- 

 guished from variation in animal forms must go on 

 unchecked till astronomic change shall have ended 

 the capability of this world to support life. It is 

 far more probable that the evolutions of the future 

 are to be sought in realms with which the zoologist 

 acknowledges that he has nothing to do, and take 

 origin out of the special psychical characters of 

 man. 



For my own part I maintain that the universe, 



