30 KEPOET— 1879. 



We are not, however, on that account forced to the conclusion that 

 there is nothing in the universe but matter and force. The simplest 

 physical law is absolutely inconceivable by the highest of the brutes, and 

 no one would be justified in assuming that man had already attained the 

 limit of his powers. Whatever may be that mysterious bond which 

 connects organisation with psychical endowments, the one grand fact — a 

 fact of inestimable importance — stands out clear and freed from all 

 obscurity and doubt, that from the first dawn of intelligence there is 

 with every advance in organisation a corresponding advance in mind. 

 Mind as well as body is thus travelling onwards through higher and still 

 higher phases ; the great law of Evolution is shaping the destiny of our 

 race ; and though now we may at most but indicate some weak point in 

 the generalisation which would refer consciousness as well as life to a 

 common material source, who can say that in the far off future there 

 may not yet be evolved other and higher faculties from which light may 

 stream in upon the darkness, and reveal to man the great mystery of 

 Thought ? 



