CHAPTER XVIII 



HUMANITY IN LIMITED PRIVILEGE 



In a final reference to the methods of biological evolu- 

 tionary production of the higher living organisms, it seems 

 well to note the occasional revolutionary activity in an other- 

 wise continuous change. We have already observed the 

 radical change in the nature of that progress, which occurred 

 when sexual conjugation enabled the germ-plasm to associ- 

 ate with it descendant cells of specialized duties to build up 

 complex bodies. In this there was a new departure, involv- 

 ing possibilities which before then had not appeared. 



Then again when the appearance of self -consciousness in 

 man, gave him the knowledge of his relations to others and 

 to the universe; and thus, in part, the knowledge of the 

 universe itself; and awakened the aspirations of psychologi- 

 cal reasoning, there was another entirely new phase of ad- 

 vance. It is not to be supposed that a new impulse was 

 originated. It was the old impulse, which had always been 

 active, reaching a new aspect, and endowing matter with 

 powers of new form. The life in matter reached a stage 

 which was, for it, radically new. 



And again in that same direction of intellectual percep- 

 tion, the guidance of human activities by more of intellect, 

 and less of materialism, and of remoter and moral purposes, 



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