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him, or is shown him to-day, and yet he has come 
to his estate. He has never been coddled; fire, water, 
frost, gravity, hunger, death, have made and still 
make no exceptions in his favor. He is on a level 
with all other animals in this respect. He has his life 
and well-being on the same terms as do the fowls of 
the air and the beasts of the fields. 
Archbishop Whately thought that primitive man 
could never have raised himself to a higher con- 
dition without external aid— some “elementary 
instruction to enable his faculties to begin their 
work.” He must have had a boost. Well, the boost 
was forthcoming, but it was not from without, but 
from within, through this principle of development, 
this upward striving that was innate from the first 
in certain forms of life and of which Whately had 
no conception. It was the conception of his time 
that creation was like a watch made and wound up 
by some power external to itself. 
The physical evolution of man, as I have said, 
is no doubt complete. He will never have wings, or 
more legs, or longer arms, or a bigger brain. The 
wings and the extra legs and the keener sense he has 
left behind him. His development henceforth must 
be in the mental and spiritual. He is bound to have 
more and more dominion over Nature, and see more 
and more clearly his own relation to her. He will 
in time completely subdue and possess the earth. 
Yes, and probably exhaust her? But he will see in 
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