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doctrine of evolution. Its theses may be stated as follows: 
First. The mind of animals and men exercises a directive, though 
not a creative, power over their movements. This directive power 
is an evident direction of the course of energy by consciousness, 
and is, as such, a direct interference with mechanical process. 
Second. Since the evolution of animal types is due to their move- 
ments within their environment, and the movements have been 
inaugurated in conscious states by the directive power of will 
(not free will), the evolution of organic types is due to mind. 
Third. Since protoplasm is sustained as a chemical body against 
the ordinary chemical forces by the presence of vitality or some 
of its class of energies, the origin of protoplasm cannot be due 
to chemical energy, but to some energy of the vital type. This 
third thesis should be modified so as to read: Since protoplasm 
is decomposed as a chemical body by the attacks of living micro- 
organisms only, at ordinary temperatures, it is evident that vital 
energy possesses a direct control over the chemical energy. And 
vital energies are believed to possess no peculiarity by which they 
may be distinguished from the non-vital, excepting the stamp of 
a pre-existent or present consciousness. 
rom these premises it is inferred that there is and has been a 
primitive mind as an attribute or property of primitive matter. - 
And this mind directs energy profitably to conscious beings an 
produces advantageous types of automatic energy by cryptopney- 
It thus acts as a building and creating agency, opposimg 
chemical and physical forces, whose outcome is destruction only, 
or the “dissipation of energy and the integration of matter. 
In the second of the brochures referred to, the articles of the 
“Theology of Evolution” are stated as follows (p. 28): 
“I. Nothing exists excepting tridimensional matter and its 
properties (or behavior). : 
“II. The properties of matter are energy (motion) and con- 
sciousness. t 
“III. Consciousness is not a property of universal matter, bu 
is conditioned by the axiomatic qualities of matter, as extension 
and resistance. , ther 
“IV. The mode of motion (energy) of matter is, on the o 
hand, primitively conditioned by consciousness, but ceases a m 
so conditioned when it reaches a certain degree of automatis 
ger better defined by future research). 
from matter and 
