A STUDY IN BIOLOGY. 267 



race ; * * who can say that in the far-off future there may not yet be 

 evolved other and higher faculties .^'' 



Rev. Dr. Campbell, an eminent and very learned Scotch theologian and 

 college professor, wrote in 1763 the only successful reply to the famous ''argu- 

 ment against miracles" which had been put forth twelve years previously by the 

 historian, David Hume; and Dr. Campbell says: ''When we speak of the laws 

 of nature, we commonly mean no more than those regarding the material world, 

 or the laws of matter and motion with which we happen to be acquainted. Yet, 

 those which regard spiritual beings are as truly laws of nature as those which con- 

 cern corporeal." 



Paley's " Natural Theology " has been a standard text-book in all theological 

 seminaries for more than half a century past; and on page 231 it says : " There 

 may be more and other senses than those which we have. There may be senses 

 suited to the perception of the powers, properties and substance of spirits. 

 These may belong to the higher orders of rational agents; for there is not the 

 smallest reason for supposing that we are the highest, or that the scale of creation 

 stops with us." 



Prof. Winchell, the distinguished geologist of Michigan, and author of many 

 popular works, says : " Evolution restores us to that simple conception of the 

 relation of God to the world which is at once the primitive faith of man, the 

 heaven-taught creed of the ancient Hebrew, and the loftiest result of modern 

 science and philosophy." 



The above citations are perhaps sufficient to indicate what is the plain logic 

 of the law of evolution — that Man is an embryonic and transitional type, and not a 

 closed or terminal type like the quadrumana and other lower forms. The idea 

 was well grasped by many of the Bible writers which the logical sequences of 

 known natural law confirm to-day, to-wit: Animal man is the larv» of the angel; 

 the "spiritual man" of the Bible is that transitional stage in which the angel 

 consciousness has been more or less developed, while the larval form and mode 

 of life still remains. And the first awakening of this angel consciousness in the 

 man constitutes what is called " regeneration " by the churches.* The angel con- 

 sciousness is a function of the spiritual or sixth-sense, which may be very dim or 

 very bright, the same as the other senses. It furnishes its data as reliably as the 

 other senses; but in this case as in the others, the coordinating reason must place 

 them in their proper relation to other sense-given data, or else there will be aber-' 

 rant predominance of the data furnished by the sixth sense, and thus lead to 

 religious folly and fanaticism, the same as the excessive predominance of any 

 other one of the senses will lead to erroneous thought and action. 



* ' ' New birth," " change of heart," " born again," or " born of the spirit,'' " coming out of darkness into 

 marvelous light," etc., are all phrases used in revival and other religious meetings, which, as practical facts, 

 mean the same thing. 



