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wliatcvor hopes, or fears, or feelings about liimsclf or h 

 race lie 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 wdiatever, 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 tlie 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 cor}X)real origin of the whole race, 

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

 fication of some prei3xisting animal form." 



Mjjjijsjndjied^omjioundj 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 harmonj- and beauty 

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

 with the full perfection and beauty of that soul, attained l)y . 

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

 acter would be fonned like nothing else whicli is visil)lc 

 in this world, and having a mode of action difTerent, 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," that on his view man is to 1)C 

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

 of the grand series of organic Nature, but as in some dcgn^e 

 a new a?id distinct order of being.'*. From those infinitely 

 «2 Natural Selection, p. 324. " The italics are not Mr. WaUace'a. 



