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all but unobservably but ever advancing, the develop- 
ment of the image, so in the development of the human 
apparatus of thought, almost simultaneously with the 
first movement of reason, which is the point, so hope- 
lessly indefinable in words, which I have yet striven 
to suggest, must have begun that development, that 
long series of questionings of the reality of this iden- 
tity of all things with the questioner, and that con- 
sequent recognition of real and fixed differences in 
things which, through long ages gradually affecting and 
developing the elementary thought of primitive man, 
has gradually wrought that simple germ- into the shape 
in which we now use it, into the shape, that is, of our 
modern common knowledge, and even our scientific 
conception, of natural phenomena, and which, its de- 
velopment still continuing, is hourly and daily leading 
us to a truer and wider knowledge of the objects of the 
natural world. 
Finally there is an eminently practical suggestion I 
should like to make about the rather speculative mat- 
ters just discussed. It refers to the relation which 
highly civilized folk bear, and should bear, toward the 
races still in a very primitive condition of thought with 
whom they are brought in contact in these days of much 
travel and widely spreading colonization. It should be 
more clearly conceived than is often the case that the 
task of the missionaries sent from civilized folk among 
primitive people — and by missionaries I here mean 
not only the highly honourable class of religious mis- 
sionaries but also that other class, wider in that it 
should embrace the former, of social missionaries — 
is to adopt those who are only provided with a very 
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