290 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



a physical impossibility that Man — the human 

 pair — can have been introduced into the world 

 except in complete stature — in the full posses- 

 sion of all his faculties and powers. He holds it 

 as certain that on no other condition could Man, 

 on his first appearance, have been able to survive 

 and to found the human family. Even those 

 who distrust this argument as entitled to the rank 

 of a self-evident physical truth, must admit that 

 it is at least quite as good as the opposite asser- 

 tion, that any origin except the origin of natural 

 birth is inconceivable. Where our ignorance is 

 so profound, no reasoning of this kind is of much 

 value. There is undoubtedly much to be said in 

 support of Mons. Guizot's position. Certainly, 

 Man as a mere animal is the most helpless of 

 all animals. His whole frame has relation to his 

 mind, and apart from that relation, it is feebler 

 than the frame of any of the brutes. All its 

 members are Correlated amongst each other with 

 the functions of his Brain, so that action may 

 follow upon Knowledge — so that embodiment may 

 be possible to Thought. Yet in its plan and struc- 



