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differences arising in the course of the transition, it 

 may be a mistake, on the other hand, to make nothing 

 of the transition. If in the name of Science the 

 advocate of the Law of Continuity demands tliat it be 

 rectified, he may well make the attempt. The partial 

 truth for the present perhaps amounts* to this, that 

 earlier phases of life exhibit imperfect manifestations 

 of principles which in the higher structure and 

 widened environment of later forms are more fully 

 manifested and expressed, yet are neither contained in 

 the earlier phases nor explained by them. At the 

 same time, everything that enters into Man, every 

 sensation, emotion, volition, enters with a difference, a 

 difference due to the fact that he is a rational and 

 self-conscious being, a difference therefore which no 

 emphasis of language can exaggerate. The music 

 varies with the ear ; varies with the soul behind the 

 ear ; relates itself with all the music that ear has ever 

 heard before ; with the mere fact that what that ear 

 hears, it hears as music ; that it hears at all ; that it 

 knows that it hears. Man differs from every other 

 product of the evolutionary process in being able to 

 see that it is a process, in sharing and rejoicing in its 

 unity, and in voluntarily working through the process 

 himself. If he is part of it he is also more than part 

 of it, since he is at once its spectator, its director, and 

 its critic. " Even on the hypothesis of a psychic life 

 in all matter we come to an alteration indeed, but not 

 an abolition, of the contrast between body and soul. 

 Of course on that hypothesis they are distinguished 

 by no qualitative difference in their natures, but still 

 less do they blend into one ; the one individual ruling 

 soul always remains facing, in an attitude of complete 



