io8 EVIDENCES AND LIMITATIONS 



evolution produces mechanical results, and if higher 

 results emerge we must hypothecate higher causation. 



The inference which ought to be made in relation to 

 the subject-matter of these lectures has already been 

 hinted at/ but I wish again to define its nature. It 

 is this: If man's origin cannot be entirely accounted 

 for by a process of purely natural evolution, neither 

 can man's primitive state and moral history be wholly 

 explained by considerations drawn from his animal 

 inheritance. Man is more than the highest brute be- 

 low him, and what that more was when man began to 

 be cannot be determined by purely biological consid- 

 erations. Superphysical factors — factors distinctly 

 supernatural to his progenitors — were at work in origi- 

 nating human nature and in establishing its original 

 state. Therefore other lines of inquiry, as well as the 

 biological, are necessary, if we would deal intelligently 

 with the subject before us. 



I trust that we have reached a point in our discussions 

 at which we can intelligently examine the theological 

 implications of the evolutionary hypothesis. I expect 

 to devote my attention to them in the next lecture. 



1 See pp. 31-22, above; and p. 156, below. 



