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psychological man you must erect a distinct kingdom; 

 nay you must even dichotomise the universe, putting 

 man on one side and all things else on the other." ^ 



Now it is obvious that this disparity, so far from be- 

 ing explainable by any future discovery of missing links 

 between the other primates and man, will be accentuated 

 thereby; for the closer the resemblance is between 

 man's physical organism and that of his brute ancestors, 

 the more unaccountable on purely evolutionary grounds 

 is the innovation which is apparent in the origin of 

 man's mental and spiritual capacities. 



I think that the considerations which I have given 

 in this lecture, while they forbid our rejection, in the 

 present state of scientific knowledge, of the hypothesis 

 that man has derived his physical organism from brute- 

 ancestors, are fatal to the supposition that his distinc- 

 tive mental, moral, and religious faculties are thus 

 derived. The difficulty of explaining such derivation 

 is confessed either directly or impliedly by many evo- 

 lutionists. The famous originator of neo-Darwinism, 

 August Weismann, says, " How the activity of certain 

 brain-elements can give rise to a thought which cannot 

 be compared with anything material, which is never- 

 theless able to react upon the material parts of our 

 body, and, as Will, to give rise to movement — that we 

 attempt in vain to understand."^ In these words is 

 logically involved the whole difficulty. Mechanical 



1 Through Nature to God, p. 82. This argument is given by H. 

 Calderwood, Evolution, ch. xvi, esp. pp. 280-293. 



2 Evolution Theory, Vol. II. p. 392. 



