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the anthropoid apes and the lower primates (the 

 earliest siruise and prosimiae). 



VI. Consequently, the historical, gradual evolution 

 of the human soul from a long chain of higher and 

 lower mammal-souls must, by application of the uni- 

 versally valid phyletic laws of the theory of descent, 

 be regarded as a fact which has been scientifically 

 proved. 



