240 DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION 



bined in relatively simple ways, and the "stuff" does 

 not give any outward evidences of "mind" as such. 

 Living things are almost infinitely complex as regards 

 their chemical organization, and even in the very lowest 

 of them we can discern a cell-reflex element which, 

 combined with others like it, forms the unit of the 

 compounds we call instinct, intelligence, and reason. 

 Hence through an analysis of mental evolution we are 

 enabled to form the larger conception of a continuous 

 universe whose ultimate elements are the same every- 

 where. 



