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a far higher round than his lateral congeners. The 

 central stem has been shown to be the highest from 

 the Metazoans which arose from a Protozoan base ; the 

 vertebrate from the invertebrate ; the mammal from 

 the lower classes ; the monodelphian from the impla- 

 centals, and the discoidans from the lower monodel- 

 phians. There is no reason to suppose that a general 

 law failed here, but every reason to believe that with 

 successive changes the rise in development became 

 infinitely important. If bone for bone, muscle for 

 muscle, and every other physical character could be 

 shown to be more similar in man and the apes than 

 naturalists admit, the distinction between them would 

 still remain one of the broadest in nature. In man. 

 Thought Force gained its true terrestrial exponent, 

 and the Soul beamed from its tenement to work all 

 the wonders it has wrought. Nothing paramount to 

 this occurred earlier : not even the change from inan- 

 imate to animate matter was a rise so grand, so fruit- 

 ful in results as this. 



But as the forces and tendencies of intellectual life 

 lie sleeping in the ovule from which is evolved the in- 

 dividual man, so in the germ of Being residing in 

 atoms of ether, may sleep the forces and tendencies 

 of immeasurable spiritual power. The erect, large- 

 brained thinker was ordained, when atoms ranged 

 themselves by their axes of rotation. This intelligent 

 being is a necessity of the eternal activities of nature, 

 which, working under the guidance of the Divine 

 Ordainer, must produce good, better, best. Atomic 

 Force, Molecular Force, Growth Force, Nerve Force, 

 Thought Force, Spiritual Power, these succeed each 



