XII.] THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 303 



"On tins view of his special nttributea, \vc may arlrtiit 



* lliat he is indeed a being apart.' Man has not only csrapod 



* Natural Selection' himself, but he is actually al)lc to take 

 away some of that power from Nature which before his a|>- 

 pearance she universally exercised. We can anticipate tiie 

 time when the earth will produce only cultivated plants 

 and domestic animals; when man's selection sliall have sii|>- 

 planted * Natural Selection;' and when tlie ocean ^v ill Ixj 

 the only domain in which that power can be exerted." 



Baden Powell" observes on this subject: "Tiie relation 

 of the animal man to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual 

 man, resembles that of a crystal slumbering in its native 

 quarry to the satne crystal mounted in the jwlarizing appa- 

 ratus of the philosopher. Tlie difference is not in phvsiral 

 Nature, but in investing that Nature with a new and higher 

 application. Its continuity with the material world remains 

 the same, but a new relation is developed in it, and it claims 

 kindred with ethereal matter and with celestial liglit." 



This well expresses the distinction between the merelv 

 physical and the hyperjihysical natures of man, and the sub- 

 sumption of the former into the latter which dominates it. 



The same author in speaking of man's moral and spiritual 

 nature says," " The assertion in its very nature and essence 

 refers wholly to a different order of things, apart from 

 and transcending any material ideas whatsoever." Again" 

 he adds, " In proportion as man's moral superiority is held 

 to consist in attributed not of a material or coqwreal kind 

 or origin, it can signify little how his physical nature may 

 have originated." 



Now physical science, as such, has nothing to do with 

 the soul of man, which is hyperphysicjil. That such an en- 

 tity exists, that the correlated physical forces go through 

 their Protean transformations, have their persistent ebb and 



" " Unity of Worlds," Essny ii., § ii., p. 247. 



«5 Ibid., Essay i., § ii., p. 70. " Ibid., Essay iii., § iv., p. 4C6. 



