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fessor St. George Mivart, while admitting that man's 

 body " was evolved from preexisting material," as- 

 serted that " his soul was created in quite a different 

 way . . . by the direct action of the Almighty." 1 

 And in a lecture on the functions of the brain, the 

 late Sir James Paget contended that man's possession 

 of reason and conscience 



establish between him and the brutes a great differ- 

 ence, not in degree alone, but in kind. The spirit 

 differs from all the faculties in its independence of our 

 organisation, for it is exercised best in complete 

 abstraction from all that is sensible : it is wholly in- 

 dependent of the organisation of the brain, wholly 

 independent also of the education of the understand- 

 ing. 2 



This was written in 1854, when psychology was at 

 the level represented by Dr. Carpenter, who was 

 satisfied that — 



There is an entity wherein man's nobility essentially 

 consists, which does not depend for its existence on 

 any play of physical or vital forces, but which makes 

 these forces subservient to its determination. 3 



That Dr. Wallace accepts, with astounding cre- 

 dulity, the genuineness of the tricks of tc spiritualist " 

 charlatans of the Eusapio Paladino type; that St. 

 George Mivart died, despite his treatment at the 



1 Genesis of Species, p. 325. » Memoir, by his Son, p. 175. 



3 Mental Physiology, p. 27. 



