ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 15 
specially created, or there was a prepared organiza- 
tion (protoplasm, if you please), adequate to the re- 
ception and protection of the infant being. And, 
when we come to this conclusion, there is but a step 
to the necessity of the highest living organism as a 
matrix (protoplasm) for the production of a still 
higher order of life and structure. 
Man, therefore, having the highest order of life 
and structure, could only, under this law, be pro- 
duced by the means of the next below him, to-wit: 
the anthropoid ape. But, though born of an ape 
mother, he is not of ape origin, because his paternity 
is due directly to the force of creative influx. 
Human life includes the animal, but has a higher 
plane superinduced, which has the power to think 
analytically and spiritually, to make unlimited im- 
provement, and generally, to do what animals can- 
not do. The animal is the foundation on which the 
human rests; and without the former, the latter 
eould not exist. But human life is immeasurably 
above the animal plane, and so distinct from it, as 
to make the idea of the development or evolution of 
the one from the other utterly absurd. In fact, the 
impossibility of such a development seems to be con- 
ceded by Mr. Wallace, the co-originator of the Dar- 
winian theory, in his late work on Natural Selection, 
(349). 
Yet the idea of Man born of an Ape /—Dr. Dar- 
win descended from a monkey! Monstrous! Be- 
