108 CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, ESQ., M.A., B.M. (OXON.), ETC. 
reasoning upon it; but he is ready to learn and capable 
of acquiring everything under fayourable conditions. The 
animal is perfect at birth, with a perfection which is incapable 
of being expanded beyond the narrow limits of its corporeal 
senses. ‘The Man is imperfect, but with a power of becoming 
gradually perfect even in the higher fhghts of understanding 
and intelligence. The mind of the animal is like a field 
already sown with a crop which, although useful in itself, 
yet totally prevents any other crop from being inseminated 
therein, a meadow covered with herbage and wild flowers; 
while the mind of a Man is virgin soil, prepared for the 
reception of any and every crop, be it tares, which shall run 
to waste and disorder, or good seed, which shall spring up, 
and shall yield forty, sixty, or a hundredfold. 
This radical psychological distinction between Man and 
animals is utterly invapable of being explained by any theory 
of natural selection. It passes it by without contact, and 
leaves the theory far behind. Any hypothesis of Evolution 
without superhuman guidance and direction can only act 
by continuous gradations, acting invariably upon the same 
plane, and could not by the wildest flight of imagination 
produce phenomena so utterly discontinuous as the unlimited 
faculties of Man out of the strictly limited corporeal-sensual 
instincts of animals. No survival of the fittest, 1 feel safe 
in affirming, however long the time granted, could develop 
something out of nothing, the grand and noble structure of 
human Reason out of materials so lowly, and so different in 
quality and essence. 
The intellectual and moral faculties of Man are of a nature, 
character, and power of expansion which Man himself is 
utterly incapable of duly appraising, or of appreciating with 
anything approaching to fulness or completeness. In no 
man, indeed, are all these faculties fully awakened, and in 
some very much less than in others. They exist, indeed, 
potentially in all, but in infancy they are all dormant, and 
are gradually and, one by one, successively unfolded and 
roused into activity by various external circumstances, and 
are developed by continual use and practical exercise. A 
man may possess a faculty of which he little dreams, simply 
because the occasion for its use has not yet arisen, and it 
has thus never had an opportunity of being drawn forth and 
exercised. Thus, one may be endowed with a faculty for 
numbers, another for mechanics, another for military tactics, 
which may, by adverse circumstances, be kept quiescent for 
years, or which may never have an opportunity of being 
