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short an animal, however anthropoid, is an organism, re- 
stricted to the manifestation of psychical and physical pheno- 
“ the same in kind, thongk differing m - degree, from 
generation to generation ; there is no true mental progression 
m ^The movement-spring of Anthropology is man’s tendency 
to rise and fall. It is a vast Ethnical beat, or periodicity, fiom 
Civilization to Barbarism, and from barbarism to cmh'atmn 
once more— in the minutest acts of our minds is the same 
secret, logical, physical, metaphysical, as m the entire universe. 
Consciousness is the Science of Reason, and therefore the 
Science of Man, the very end of human existence, I think, is 
tMs-that in each Life, Mankind may but 
their relations— spiritual, mental, or physical— with Fieecto , 
accordino- to Reason. Man is an animal; but he is something 
more than Protoplasm ; begotten of Spontaneous Generation 
“ d Natural Selection. From Soul to Spirit is a leap too 
great for Nature to accomplish. This fact of itself points out 
irrefragable considerations against the absolute reality of the 
« identical ” structural gradation of the Human . Race horn 
A nes according to mere exterior or interior resemblance. 
We shall make no progress towards a mental scie 
begin by depreciating the body, not by *sd a tni^ it, as Met - 
physicians, religious ascetics, and maniacs have done , sti 
Ft may well be, as De Quincey surmised the open ng of the 
book at the Day of Judgment shall be the unfolding f ^ 
everlasting' scroll of human memory ( Lancet , Report), uu 
viously, therefore , the learned College-Professor does not him- 
self choose to put off that which he cannot now make fit into 
the materialistic side of consciousness and organization. L 
carries us up his anatomical ladder, from gradation to grad, 
“ided mainly by Flourens; Pigeon higher aud hgher up 
to Man, — “the misinterpretation of whose mind pons 
what has hitherto (but, of course no Jouger) claimed to be 
Mental Philosophy;” and having truly declared that Sc 
cannot touch this question, he descends ' 
all from that physical review of Comparative rsy 
The distinctive character of Man, however pithecoid, consist , 
is a7arting.point, in the moral faculty of subordinating &at 
same mental and physical organism to his exclusively human 
