1881.] The Psychic Calendar of Creation. 657 
ment of the organs of sense. The order of the “successional 
types of animal life ” appears to him approximately coinci- 
dent with the geological order, and both lead up to “ the 
perfect harmonisation of the law and philosophy of Evolu- 
tion with the grand distinguishing doftrine of the Christian 
Bible, that there is a ‘ natural (or carnal) man ’ and there is 
a ‘ spiritual man.’ ” It is doubtless not unknown to many 
of our readers that the most eminent American biologists 
find in the doClrine of Evolution, and in its applications, 
nothing necessarily incompatible with the general idea of a 
personal God, and in particular with the Christian revelation. 
In this respeCl they differ strikingly from a large section of 
the German, and even of the English, naturalists, who lean 
towards the materialistic view of the universe. A further 
distinction which must not be overlooked is, that in the 
United States Darwinism pure and simple, as it is commonly 
but doubtfully called, — i.e., the ascription of the origin of 
organic species to the fortuitous accumulation of minute 
variations, — is less widely accepted than in Europe. Very 
few believers in the transformation of species fail to see that 
before Natural Selection could be brought into play Variation 
must have existed. 
The former of these characteristic features of American 
Evolutionism scarcely falls within our usual sphere of dis- 
cussion, and into the latter we are not about to enter at 
present. But both of them will serve to explain the position 
taken by Prof. Reid, This author gives, in illustration of 
his lectures on “Evolution, Science, and the Bible,” a 
tabular view in which all living beings are divided into seven 
groups. First and lowest come the Insentia, primordial 
fucoids and vegetation generally, having organic forms, but 
no motative sensibility. 
The next step brings us to the Unisentia , i.e., sensitive 
plants, rhizopods, pseudopods, protoplasm ; the eozoon. 
These beings are said to possess the sense of touch only. 
As the third group figure the Disentia , to wit protozoa, 
polyparia, radiates, mollusks, having — according to the 
author — taste and touch. 
Fourthly come the Trisentia, i.e., sauroid fishes, crusta- 
ceans, trilobites, and worms, having — we are told — sight, 
taste, and touch. 
In the fifth class, or Quadrisentia, rank humoid reptiles 
and palaeozoic sea-saurians, endowed with smell, sight, taste, 
and touch. 
Next follow the Quinsentia , including brute man, mam- 
