Saint Augustine aud Haeckel.—Frazer. 389 
But upward through Lemurian shapes they reached the form pro- 
simian. 
As primates Catarrhinae, Cynopitheci, were passed; 
Pithecanthropus alalus then, and speaking man at last. 
So much for our material frame, and is it then the whole, 
Or is there left to study the department of the soul, 
An immaterial something with our bodies but a span 
Surviving as the “ego” the decaying trunk of man? 
How this which was created in the blastodermic sphere 
Can fail to share its body’s death is anything but clear. 
In sound and healthy bodies its capacities are best, 
Weak when the body weakens, vanished when it’s laid to rest. 
So close is the connection of the soul and its receptacle. 
That claim of life hereafter make unbiased thinkers skeptical 
The difference of mind and soul, whatever be our leaning, 
Is difficult to formulate in words of simple meaning. 
More difficult, if creatures of environment are we, 
It is for us to deem our wills in any manner free. 
The laws of substance and of force, when all is said and done, 
Are merely paraphrases, and in point of fact are one. 
We see but one, embodying all the so-called Nature's laws, 
To feeble human intellect the First and Only Cause. 
That law of substance, force, and soul, desire, adaptation 
Which marks the fittest to survive, the rest to transformation. 
Harmonious with surroundings must be that which would not die 
And better fitted things with raw material supply. 
And what are the conclusions we are authorized to draw? 
That, Force, and Matter, Mind, and Soul, but illustrate one law. 
And is our state the final one, or shall we further fare, 
No longer masticating food; no longer growing hair? 
And shall we win the mastery over every Cosmic might? 
_And are we mere Automata? Is nothing wrong or right? 
Is then no God Almighty stretching out His hand to save? 
Is there no hope of heaven waiting us beyond the grave? 
So asks Philosophy athanatist and dualistic 
And thus replies that other one entitled the Monistic: 
“All things, all thoughts, all beings, every action which is done, 
“Are but the different forms of THe ExisteENcE which is ONE. 
The noble St. Augustine spoke a creed akin to this, 
The Pantheistic shibboleth, that “Gop Is THAT WHICH Is.” 
The Monist leader Haeckel’s view is similarly broad. 
He turns the sentence merely, holding—aLt_ THAT Is Is Gop. 
April, 1902. 
