240 GENERAL EVOLUTION. 



crown of eyolution, and a justification of this labor of the ages. 

 If a true factor in human development, it might be compared, in 

 the creation of character, to the apical bud of a growing tree. As 

 the part pre-eminently living, it leads the growth of the trunk and 

 branches. They all follow of necessity the path it has marked out. 

 Under its lead they are successively formed, become fixed, and 

 finally decay. 



