60 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



I forgot to mention that the order, of Table V. is not only 

 a statement of the emotions of animals, but is in the same 

 order as that of their evolution in the animal mind and 

 in the mind of a child; (vide Professor Romanes' "Mental 

 Evolution in the Animal Mind.") It is interesting to notice 

 that the order in which Professor Romanes gives these evolu- 

 tions, with the three exceptions I have pointed out, coincides 

 with the order of their evolution in nature, and also with the 

 order in which I evolve them in Table V. from the attributes 

 of God's Trinity. Such a coincidence from two persons, 

 working from such different points of observation as Professor 

 Romanes, who is working from the material standpoint, and 

 myself who am endeavouring to regard this subject from a 

 psychological point of view, is astonishing. Mr. Drummond, 

 in his work The Ascent of Man, draws attention to the fact 

 that the same order is maintained in the development of the 

 minds of children, but he points out that this is not all, but 

 that the emotions, as already hinted, appear in children in 

 the same order as they appear in the minds of animals. 



Mr. Drummond continues : " At three weeks fear is percept- 

 ibly manifest in a little child. When it is seven weeks old the 

 social affection is shown. At twelve weeks emerges jealousy 

 with its companion anger. Sympathy appears after five 

 months. Pride, Resentment, and Love of Ornament after 

 eight months. Shame, Remorse, and Sense of the Ridiculous 

 after fifteen months. These states, of course, do not indicate 

 in any mechanical way the birth of the emotions ; they repre- 

 sent rather stages in an infinitely gentle, mental ascent, stages 

 nevertheless so marked that we are able to give them names, 

 and use them as landmarks physiologically to show that the 

 tree of mind as we know it in lower nature, and the tree of 

 mind as we know it in a little child, should be the same tree, 

 starting at the same place, and though by no means ending 

 its branches at the same level, at least grows so far in a 

 paralleled direction." 



Having now shown that the same course of Evolution, if 

 viewed from the standpoint of the hypothesis of this treatise, 

 namely, that all these evolutions of sentiment and emotion are 

 in reality only the development of the attributes of the 

 respective personalities of the Trinity of God, evolved both 

 in the order of His Trinity, of my hypothesis, and also of 



