When these assumptions have been granted :

That the Nebulosity was real

That it was Primitive

That its constitutent molecules were not all imaginary
That the existing world is the result of their interaction
Then, the first question is more urgent than before:
"In The Beginning :" What was that

4. First Cause :

Equal, not only to the

Origination of Matter and of Force, but

Equal also to the

Origination of Matter thus constituted, and of

Force thus adjusted?

5. Evolution is thus seen to be the measure of

Involution.

Whatever has been evolved in the Effect

Was previously involved in the Cause.

6. Causa Causarum: What was that?

II. LIFE.

In "The First Beginning"?

"Of the causes which have led to the origina-

tion of living matter, it may be said that we

know absolutely nothing." (Huxley)

But, however inscrutable the mode,

There is no question, nor any room for question

As to the Fact:

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"Living matter " was once originated."

Life had a BEGINNING.

Still more inscrutable is the Mystery which

shrouds

The First Emergence of

III. THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND.

Mr. J. S. Mill on the Existence of Mind.

Huxley, Tyndall, and Spencer, on

Consciousness."

"States of

"Consciousness," says Prof. Huxley, is " un-
accountable."

"No one can prove that mind and life are in any

way related to chemistry and mechanics."

Consciousness and Physics are incommensurable.

"Thought BEGAN to be." How?

"Intelligence, self-conscious, emerged."

WHENCE?

CHAPTER IX.

THE THREE BARRIERS.

Mr. Darwin on

The adaptation of organs,

The transmutation of animals,
The Origin of Instinct,

The ant, and the honey-bee.

His Theory of Neuters:

Fertile parents transmit,

through fertile progeny,

A tendency to produce sterility,

incapable of further production.

His oversight of

The evidence of Design.

His Remarkable Omissions.

His ingenious substitution of

The "conceivable " for the actual.

II. THE BREAST:

The type of Tenderness

Until it can be shewn

III. THE BRAIN:

How an animal that never was

suckled stumbled on the capacity

of giving what it never got.

The measure of Capacity.

The Human Brain is Pleno-cerebral:

All other Brains are Manco-cerebral.

To all Men the pleno-cerebral type is common:

To Man, as such, it is PECULIAR.

The lowest Human Brain has the latent franchise

of

Progressive Reason:

All other Brains have the rigid circumscription of

Unprogressive Instinct.

No brute is susceptible of Human Culture;

No human infant is not so.

Between these two the Difference is Immeasurable.

CHAPTER X.

ATOMS.

"The Atoms are the First Beginnings."

What, then, are these Atoms?

"Ultimate homogeneous units:"

Lange. Mr. Herbert Spencer.

"One ultimate form of Matter."

Dr. Tyndall's rejection of

Mr. Spencer's dictum.

Heterogeneity of the Atoms.

Chemical Phenomena

Not to be deduced from

Mechanical conditions.

Their grouping : Their varieties:
In shape; In kind.

Their Motions, Forces, Affinities:

Inadequate to the problem proposed.

The "Atoms" are

NOT the Beginning.

They have "all the characteristics of

MANUFACTURED ARTICLES."

Sir John Herschel.

"No Theory of Evolution can be formed to account for them."

Professor Maxwell. Professor Pritchard.

Sir William Thomson :-

"The assumption of atoms can explain no pro-

perty of body which has not previously been

attributed to the atoms themselves."

"A series of forms graduating insensibly

From some ape-like creature

To man as he now exists." But

(i.) The series is not a series.

It has no continuity, and no concatenation.

(ii.) It does not "graduate insensibly.”

It exhibits "breaks":"wide, sharp, and

defined."

These breaks "incessantly occur in all parts

of the series."

(iii.) The “ape-like creature" is wholly hypo-

thetical.

It is absolutely non-existent.

There is no evidence that it ever was other-

Professor Huxley's

wise.

Cautious and conditional generalizations

Adverse to Mr. Darwin's theory.

Professor Haeckel's

"Rogues in buckram."

Destitute of any single living representative.

Destitute of fossil evidence of their former existence.

The Chordonia

"Developed THEMSELVES"!

The admissions of its advocates, are

Fatal to The Theory.

CHAPTER XII.

MEN.

Prof. Huxley's dicta on

"The question of questions for mankind."

Contrast between Men and Apes :

As to cerebral structure.

As to cerebral weight.

As to "the great gulf in intellectual power
between lowest man and highest ape."

As to "the structural differences

No intermediate Link

Paradoxes:

which separate Man from the Gorilla."

bridges over the gap between Homo and Troglo-

dytes."

'Quâ-quâ-versal propositions."

"The UNMEASURABLE and practically infinite divergence

Of the Human from the Simian Stirps."

Its "Primary Cause."

Psychical Distinctions.

Structural Distinctions.

Mr. Darwin's Testimony to

"The great break in the organic chain

Between man and his nearest allies, which

Cannot be bridged over

By any extinct or living species."

Prof. Mivart's Refutation of this theory.

Man, the apes, and the half-apes

Cannot be arranged in a single ascending series.