THE INTERPRETER 120, 



hands of his Church, a professed Catholic; that Sir 

 James Paget accepted, with never a doubt, the dogmas 

 of orthodoxy ; and that Dr. Carpenter was a Unita- 

 rian, — goes far to explain the attitude of each. But, 

 surely, these opponents of the doctrine of continuity, 

 by which Evolution stands or falls, had they made 

 the effort, must have found it difficult to envisage the 

 moment of supernatural intervention in the history 

 of man when he passed from the mortal to the im- 

 mortal ; when the " entity " which was not of him 

 was injected into him. There is an inevitable vague- 

 ness in the words of each writer; but it must be as- 

 sumed that they all reject the old " preformation " 

 theory of Leibnitz and Haller, and agree as to the im- 

 portation of a separate " ens," or " being," into every 

 man of woman born, whereby the individual becomes 

 " a living soul." That being so, it is permissible to 

 ask at what stage of gestation or of subsequent de- 

 velopment the supernatural act of special creation, 

 for that is what it comes to, was effected ? It must 

 be admitted that, prior to this, man must be at least 

 potentially, if not, by reason of his slow develop- 

 ment, actually, an animal of highly equipped intel- 

 ligence. There is no need, in the common phrase, 

 to " pause for a reply," because no reply is possible. 

 A few words of Huxley's will, as usual, clear the 

 atmosphere of verbal fog : — 



