304 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. 



flow outside of the world of WILL and SELF-CONSCIOUS 

 MOKAL BEING, are propositions the proofs of which have no 

 place in this work. This at least may however be confi- 

 dently affirmed, that no reach of physical science in any 

 coming century will ever approach to a demonstration that 

 countless modes of being, as different from each other as 

 are the force of gravitation and conscious maternal love, 

 may not coexist. Two such modes are made known to us 

 by our natural faculties only : the physical, which includes 

 the first of these examples ; the hyperphysical, which em- 

 braces the other. For those who accept revelation, a third 

 and a distinct mode of being and of action is also made 

 known, namely, the direct and immediate, or, in the sense 

 here given to the term, the supernatural. An analogous re- 

 lationship runs through and connects all these modes of 

 being and of action. The higher mode in each case em- 

 ploys and makes use of the lower, the action of which it 

 occasionally suspends or alters, as gravity is suspended by 

 electro-magnetic action, or the living energy of an organic 

 being restrains the inter-actions of the chemical affinities 

 belonging to its various constituents. 



Thus conscious will controls and directs the exercise of 

 the vital functions according to desire, and moral conscious- 

 ness tends to control desire in obedience to higher dictates. 67 



67 A good exposition of how an inferior action has to yield to one 

 higher is given by Dr. Newman in his " Lectures on University Subjects," 

 p. 372. " What is true in one science, is dictated to us indeed according 

 to that science, but not according to another science, or in another de- 

 partment. 



" What is certain in the military art, has force in the military art, 

 but not in statesmanship ; and if statesmanship be a higher department 

 of action than war, and enjoins the contrary, it has no force on our re- 

 ception and obedience at all. And so what is true in medical science, 

 might in all cases be carried out, were man a mere animal or brute with- 

 out a soul ; but since he is a rational, responsible being, a thing may be 

 ever so true in medicine, yet may be unlawful in fact, in consequence of 



