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apparently come about by chance with
in the we'll defined orbit Of natural law.
Natural selection is thus justified FOX
within given number of times. on the
average, according 10 this law, nature
viii make the same selection.
As to accounting for the missing link
and the birth reason it is usual to ap-
ply the aphorism that the exception
proves the rule. But / hope in this
connection | may be permitted to make
a suggestion. The most central and alb
sorbing function in all life is genera
| tion-the reproduction by all species oil
its kind. In the plant kingdom tbs
function is probably without sensation
but in the animal kingdom, including
man, it is accompanied by the most in
tense of all physical sensations. In
the animal kingdom the indulgence oil
these sensations is limited 10 certain
periods. In mankind it is without linn
itation, except that imposed by the will
and moral law. Is it not exceedingly
probable, under Mr. Gulick's demon
stration that at certain times peculiar
tiles withstand the leyeling tendencies
of inbreeding, that female could have
been born freed from all restraint, who
had the tenacity to propagate her kind !?
And is il not probable that excessive
Indulgence might have swept away by
disease the race or races next proceed
ing man? Might not popularity have
then evolved from this state of affairs
with will power to resist these excuses
thus giving the basis for the evolution
of the will? This is all thus far with
the limitations of the animal mind that
is capable of resisting temptation
through fear of physical punishment.
Thus came the knowledge of good and
evil. 1t was good TO resist temptations,
and excessive Indulgence was evil.
From the realization Of the RESPONSE
bility of love the next step was the
overawing sense of some power that
could give such pleasure and pain from
the same cause.-The act of generation
which is the intense, alI-absorbing
object of physical life. The animal
mind thus relieved Of all restraint by
nature must necessarily have evolved
reasoning and reflective perceptions. At
all events I like to think that love of
who is the embodiment of all
that is good, as we'll as the incentive
to evil, is responsible for the dawn of
reason
A fourth head might easily have
been added to the original proposition:
i. e., how can a conviction which found
birth in the primitive mind, although
it has tenaciously remained in the
minds of all peoples, ever be proved to
be truth? Here I must again refer to
the deductions of my friend, Professor
Burbank, who, when he is enabled to
take up his pen, will lay the founda-
ton of the new philosophy of the :wen-
tieth century. 1t is we'll established
fact that we have an intuitive power.
or what is called a sixth sense, that
arrives at truth without aid
Of the reasoning powers. We know that
is the most universal force
in nature. It is the most subtle in
fiuence in human and animal life. Each
Individual either repels Or invites by
the peculiar magnetism of his or her
personality Even the birds choose
heir mates by pronounced affinities.
Fifteen years ago Professor Burbank
predicted that the Xray quality of cleo
,ricity would some time be discovered.
The prediction has been fulfilled He
believes that the X-ray explains the
penetrating or intuitive quality of the
mind. He also believes electricity to
De the direct agent, or nearly so, Of the
I'll pervading force which underlies ere
alton, and which, he thinks, is pulsing
through Nature in vibrations the quail
ty of which are yet to be discovered
and defined. These vibrations, he
kinks, are made manifest to what we
;all the soul of man by the process of
<-ray or intuition. If this be true why.
say, should not this X-ray quality Of
he mind have made manifest this ON
lipotent force at the very birth of rea-
son, thus accounting for the universal
conviction of a God And if by vibra-
ions the omnipotent force is made
manifest to the soul, which must thus
De part of it, why should not that
Itself.
FRANKLIN H AUSTIN.