THE DIVINE SOIL 



development seemed arrested, till we reach the 

 dawn of history. 



The creative energy seems ever to have been 

 pushing out and on, and yet ever leaving a residue 

 of forms behind. The reptiles did not all become 

 birds, nor the invertebrates all become vertebrates, 

 nor the apes all become men, nor the men all 

 become Europeans. Every higher form has a 

 base or background of kindred lower forms out 

 of which it seems to have emerged, and to which 

 it now and then shows a tendency to revert. And 

 this is the order of nature everywhere, in our own 

 physiology and psychology not less than in the 

 evolution of the forms of life. Do not our highest 

 ideals have their rise and foundation in sensation 

 and experience ? There is no higher without first 

 the lower, and the lower does not all become the 

 higher. 



The blood relationship between man and the 

 anthropoid apes, as shown in the fact that human 

 blood acts poisonously upon and decomposes the 

 blood of the lower apes and other mammals, but is 

 harmless to the blood of the anthropoid apes and 

 affiliates with it, is very significant. It convinces 

 like a demonstration. Transfer the blood of the 

 dog to the fox or the wolf, or vice versa, and all goes 

 well ; they are brothers. Transfer the blood of the 

 dog to the rabbit, or vice versa, and a struggle for 

 life immediately takes place. The serum of one 

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