XII.] THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 301 



whatever hopes, or fears, or feelings about himself or his 

 race he may have, we all of us admit that these are quite 

 uninfluenced by our knowledge of the fact that each indi- 

 vidual man comes into the world by the ordinary processes 

 of generation, according to the same laws which apply to 

 the development of all organic beings whatever, that every 

 part of him which can come under the scrutiny of the anat- 

 omist or naturalist, has been evolved according to these 

 regular laws from a simple minute ovum, indistinguishable 

 to our senses from that of any of the inferior animals. If 

 this be so if man is what he is, notwithstanding the cor- 

 poreal mode of origin of the individual man, so he will as- 

 suredly be neither less nor more than man, whatever may 

 be shown regarding the corporeal origin of the whole race, 

 whether this was from the dust of the earth, or by the modi- 

 fication of some preexisting animal form." 



Man is indeed compound, in him two distinct orders of 

 being impinge and mingle ; and with this an origin from 

 two concurrent modes of action is congruous, and might be 

 expected a priori. At the same time as the " soul " is 

 " the form of the body," the former might be expected to 

 modify the latter into a structure of harmony and beauty 

 standing alone in the organic world of Nature. Also that, 

 with the full perfection and beauty of that soul, attained by 

 the concurrent action of " Nature " and " Grace," a char- 

 acter would be formed like nothing else which is visible 

 in this world, and having a mode of action different, inas- 

 much as complementary to all inferior modes of action. 



Something of this is evident even to those who approach 

 the subject from the point of view of physical science only. 

 Thus Mr. Wallace observes, 63 that on his view man is to be 

 placed " apart," as not only the head and culminating point 

 of the grand series of organic Nature, but as in some degree 

 a new and distinct order of being. From those infinitely 



62 Natural Selection, p. 324. The italics are not Mr. Wallace's. 



