"As it is very necessary to keep up a clear distinction between these two processes, let the one be called neurosis and the other psychosis. When the gamekeeper was first trained to his work, every step in the process of neurosis was accompanied by a corresponding step in that of psychosis, or nearly so. He was conscious of seeing something, conscious of making sure it was a hare, conscious of desiring to catch it, and therefore to loose the greyhound at the right time, conscious of the acts by which he let the dog out of the leash. But with practice, though the various steps of the neurosis remain—for otherwise the impression on the retina would not result in the loosing of the dog—the great majority of the steps of the psychosis vanish, and the loosing of the dog follows unconsciously, or, as we say, without thinking about, upon the sight of the hare. No one will deny that the series of acts which originally intervened between the sensation and the letting go of the dog were, in the strictest sense, intellectual and rational operations. Do they cease to be so when the man ceases to be conscious of them? That depends upon what is the essence and what the accident of these operations, which taken together constitute ratiocination. Now, ratiocination is resolvable into predication, and predication consists in marking, in some way, the existence, the co-existence, the succession, the likeness and unlikeness, of things or their ideas. Whatever does this, reasons; and if a machine produces the effects of reason, I see no more ground for denying to it the reasoning power because it is unconscious, than I see for refusing to Mr. Babbage’s engine the title of a calculating machine on the same grounds."
Here we have in the first place, the fact that an action, in the first instance rational and complex, becomes by repetition simple and instinctive. Does the man then sink to the level of the hound, or, what is more to the purpose, does this in the least approach to showing that the hound can rise to the level of the man? Certainly not; for the man is the conscious planner and originator of a course of action in which the instincts of the brute are made to take part, and in which the readiness that he attains by habit only enables him to dispense with certain processes of thought which were absolutely necessary at first. The man and the beast co-operate, but they meet each other from entirely different planes; the former from that of the rational consideration of nature, the latter from that of the blind pursuit of a mere physical instinct. The one, to use Mr. Huxley’s simile, is the conscious inventor of the calculating machine, the other is the machine itself, and, though the machine can calculate, this fact is the farthest possible from giving it the power of growing into or producing its own inventor. But Moses, or the more ancient authority from whom he quotes in Genesis, knew this better than either of these modern combatants. His special distinctive mark of the superiority of man is that he was to have dominion over the earth and its animal inhabitants; and he represents this dominion as inaugurated by man’s examining and naming the animals of Eden, and finding among them no “help meet” for him.[BH] Man was to find in them helps, but helps under his control, and that not the control of brute force, but of higher skill and of thought and even of love—a control still seen in some degree in the relation of man to his faithful companion, the dog. These old words of Genesis, simple though they are, place the rational superiority of man on a stable basis, and imply a distinction between him and the lower animals which cannot be shaken by the sophistries of the evolutionists.
[BH] Literally, “Corresponding,” or “Similar,” to him.
The theistic picture further accords with the fact that the geological time immediately preceding man’s appearance was a time of decadence of many of the grander forms of animal life, especially in that area of the old continent where man was to appear. Whatever may be said of the imperfection of the geological record, there can be no question of the fact that the Miocene and earlier Pliocene were distinguished by the prevalence of grand and gigantic forms of mammalian life, some of which disappeared in or before the Glacial period, while others failed after that period in the subsidence of the Post-glacial, or in connection with its amelioration of climate. The Modern animals are also, as explained above, a selection from the grander fauna of the Post-glacial period. To speak for the moment in Darwinian language, there was for the time an evident tendency to promote the survival of the fittest, not in mere physical development, but in intelligence and sagacity. A similar tendency existed even in the vegetable world, replacing the flora of American aspect which had existed in the Pliocene, with the richer and more useful flora of Europe and Western Asia. This not obscurely indicates the preparing of a place for man, and the removal out of his way of obstacles and hindrances. That these changes had a relation to the advent of man, neither theist nor evolutionist can doubt, and it may be that we shall some day find that this relation implies the existence of a creative law intelligible by us; but while we fail to perceive any link of direct causation between the changes in the lower world, and the introduction of our race, we cannot help seeing that correlation which implies a far-reaching plan, and an intelligent design.
Finally, the evolutionist picture wants some of the fairest lineaments of humanity, and cheats us with a semblance of man without the reality. Shave and paint your ape as you may, clothe him and set him up upon his feet, still he fails greatly of the “human form divine;” and so it is with him morally and spiritually as well. We have seen that he wants the instinct of immortality, the love of God, the mental and spiritual power of exercising dominion over the earth. The very agency by which he is evolved is of itself subversive of all these higher properties. The struggle for existence is essentially selfish, and therefore degrading. Even in the lower animals, it is a false assumption that its tendency is to elevate; for animals when driven to the utmost verge of struggle for life, become depauperated and degraded. The dog which spends its life in snarling contention with its fellow-curs for insufficient food, will not be a noble specimen of its race. God does not so treat His creatures. There is far more truth to nature in the doctrine which represents him as listening to the young ravens when they cry for food. But as applied to man, the theory of the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest, though the most popular phase of evolutionism at present, is nothing less than the basest and most horrible of superstitions. It makes man not merely carnal, but devilish. It takes his lowest appetites and propensities, and makes them his God and creator. His higher sentiments and aspirations, his self-denying philanthropy, his enthusiasm for the good and true, all the struggles and sufferings of heroes and martyrs, not to speak of that self-sacrifice which is the foundation of Christianity, are in the view of the evolutionist mere loss and waste, failure in the struggle of life. What does he give us in exchange? An endless pedigree of bestial ancestors, without one gleam of high or holy tradition to enliven the procession; and for the future, the prospect that the poor mass of protoplasm which constitutes the sum of our being, and which is the sole gain of an indefinite struggle in the past, must soon be resolved again into inferior animals or dead matter. That men of thought and culture should advocate such a philosophy, argues either a strange mental hallucination, or that the higher spiritual nature has been wholly quenched within them. It is one of the saddest of many sad spectacles that our age presents. Still these men deserve credit for their bold pursuit of truth, or what seems to them to be truth; and they are, after all, nobler sinners than those who would practically lower us to the level of beasts by their negation even of intellectual life, or who would reduce us to apes, by making us the mere performers of rites and ceremonies, as a substitute for religion, or who would advise us to hand over reason and conscience to the despotic authority of fallible men dressed in strange garbs, and called by sacred names. The world needs a philosophy and a Christianity of more robust mould, which shall recognise, as the Bible does, at once body and soul and spirit, at once the sovereignty of God and the liberty of man; and which shall bring out into practical operation the great truth that God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Such a religion might walk in the sunlight of truth and free discussion, hand in hand with science, education, liberty, and material civilisation, and would speedily consign evolution to the tomb which has already received so many superstitions and false philosophies.
[ [A] ] [ [B] ] [ [C] ] [ [D] ] [ [E] ] [ [F] ] [ [G] ] [ [H] ] [ [I] ] [ [J] ] [ [K] ] [ [L] ]
[ [M] ] [ [N] ] [ [O] ] [ [P] ] [ [Q] ] [ [R] ] [ [S] ] [ [T] ] [ [U] ] [ [V] ] [ [W] ] [ [Z] ]
A
Abbeville, Peat of, [294].
Acadian Group, [38].
Advent of Man, [286].
Agassiz on Synthetic Types, [181].
Ammonitidæ, [221].
Amphibians of the Coal Period, [144].
Andrews on the Post-pliocene, [293].
Anthracosaurus, [145].
Anticosti Formation, [61].
Antiquity of Man, [292].
Archæocyathus, [47].
Archebiosis, [327].
Arenicolites, [46].
Asterolepis, [98].
B
Baculites, [222].
Bala Limestone, [59].
Baphetes, [145].
Barrande on Primordial, [49].
Bastian on Lower forms of Life, [327].
Beatricea, [65].
Belemnites, [223].
Bigsby on Silurian Fauna, [75];
on Primordial Life, [52].
Billings on Archæocyathus, [46];
on Feet of Trilobites, [44].
Binney on Stigmaria, [127].
Biology as a term, [327].
Boulder Clay, [268].
Brachiopods, or Lamp-shells, [89].
Breccia of Caverns, [304].
Brown, Mr. K., on Stigmaria, [127].
C
Calamites, [104], [129], [173].
Calcaire Grossier, [247].
Cambrian Age, [36]; name defined, [49].
Caradoc Rocks, [60].
Carbonic Acid in Atmosphere, [123].
Carboniferous Age, [109];
Land Snails of the, [138];
Crustaceans of the, [154];
Insects of the, [135];
Corals of the, [153];
Plants of the, [120];
Fishes of the, [157];
Footprints in the, [143];
Geography of the, [110];
Reptiles of the, [143].
Carpenter on Cretaceous Sea, [230].
Carruthers on Graptolites, [72].
Cave Earth, [305].
Cavern Deposits, [304].
Cephalaspis, [97].
Cephalopods of Silurian, [69].
Ceteosaurus, [204];
Foraminifera in the, [227].
Chalk, Nature of, [227].
Chaos, [2].
Climactichnites, [45].
Coal, Origin of, [116];
of the Mesozoic, [201].
Colours of Rocks, [110].
Continental Plateaus, [57].
Continents, their Origin, [13].
Conulus Prisons, [139].
Cope on Dinosaurs, [202];
on Pterodactyl, [206];
on Mososaurus, [217];
on Caverns, [303].
Corals of the Silurian, [63];
agency of, in forming Limestone, [63], [89];
of the Devonian, [89];
of the Carboniferous, [153].
Corniferous Limestone, [96].
Coryphodon, [244].
Creation, Unity of, [33];
not by Evolution, [33];
laws of, [78], [150];
statement of as a theory, [340];
requirements of, [343];
how treated by Evolutionists, [339];
definition and explanation of, [340];
its probable conditions, [352].
Creator, evidence of a personal, [344],
Cretaceous Period, [192], [231];
Sea of the, [230].
Crinoids of the Silurian, [68].
Croll on the Post-pliocene, [262].
Crusiana, [45].
Crustaceans of the Primordial, [42];
of the Silurian, [71];
of the Mesozoic, [225].
Crust of the Earth, [5];
Folding of, [165].
Cuvier on Tertiary Mammals, [249].
Cystideans, [69].
D
Dana on Geological Periods, [175].
Darwin, Nature of his Theory, [327];
his account of the Origin of Man, [337];
his statement of Descent of Man, [337].
Davidson on Brachiopods, [169].
Dawkins on Post-glacial Mammals, [300].
Delaunay on Solidity of the Earth, [6].
Deluge, the, [290].
Devonian, or Brian Age, [81];
Physical Condition of, [82];
Tabular View of, [85];
Corals of the, [89];
Fishes of the, [96];
Plants of the, [102];
Geography of the, [82];
Insects of the, [107].
Dinichthys, [99].
Dinosaurs, [202].
Dromatherium, [208].
Dudley, Fossils of, [69].
E
Earth, its earliest state, [9];
Crust of the, [5];
folding of, [165];
gaseous state of, [9].
Edenic state of Man, [310], [376].
Edwards, Milne, on Devonian Corals, [89].
Elasmosaurus, [214].
Elephants, Fossil, [254], [300].
Elevation and Subsidence, [13], [29], [83], [165].
Enaliosaurs, [213].
“Engis” Skull, its characters, [357].
Eocene Seas, [241];
Foraminifera of the, [241];
Mammals of the, [247];
Plants of the, [238];
Footprints in the, [299].
Eophyton, [42].
Eosaurus, [145],
Eozoic Period, [17].
Eozoon Bavaricum, [38].
Eozoon Canadense, [20], [24].
Erian, or Devonian, [81];
Reason of the Name, [84];
Table of Erian Formations, [85];
Corals of the, [89];
Fishes of the, [96];
Plants of the, [102].
Eskers or Kames, [286].
Etheridge on Devonian, [85].
Eurypterus, [71], [115].
Evolution as applied to Eozoon, [33];
Primordial Animals, [55];
Silurian Animals, [77];
Trilobites, [94], [155];
Reptiles, [150];
Man, [319];
Its Character as a Theory, [320];
Its Difficulties, [322];
Its “Fall of Man,” [382],
F
Falconer on Indian Miocene, [252].
Favosites, [91].
Ferns of the Devonian, [96];
of the Carboniferous, [120].
Fishes, Ganoid, [99];
of the Silurian, [74];
of the Devonian, [96];
of the Carboniferous, [157].
Flora of the Silurian, [76];
of the Devonian, [102];
of the Carboniferous, [120];
of the Permian, [172];
of the Mesozoic, [199];
of the Eocene, [238];
of the Miocene, [259].
Footprints in the Carboniferous, [143];
in the Trias, [203];
in the Eocene, [297].
Foraminifera, Nature of, [24];
Laurentian, [25];
of the Chalk, [227];
of the Tertiary, [241].
Forbes on Post-glacial Land, [288].
Forests of the Devonian, [102];
of the Carboniferous, [120].
G
Ganoid Fishes, [96], [99].
Gaseous state of the Earth, [9].
Genesis, Book of, its account of Chaos, [2];
of Creation of Land, [13];
of Palæozoic Animals, [187];
of Creation of Reptiles, [150];
of Creation of Mammals, [234], [298];
of the Deluge, [290];
of Creation of Man, [379];
of Eden, [379].
Genesis of the Earth, [1].
Geography of the Silurian, [57];
of the Devonian, [82];
of the Carboniferous, [110];
of the Permian, [163].
Geological Periods, [175], [195].
Glacial Period, [267], [278].
Glauconite, [229].
Glyptoerinus, [88].
Graptolites, [72].
Greenland, Miocene Flora of, [260].
Greensand, [229].
Gümbel on Bavarian Eozoon, [37].
H
Hadrosaurus, [202].
Hall on Graptolites, [72];
Harlech Beds, [38].
Heer on Tertiary Plants, [261].
Helderberg Rocks, [62].
Hercynian Schists, [37].
Heterogenesis, [327].
Hicks on Primordial Fossils, [38].
Hilgard on Mississippi Delta, [296].
Hippopotamus, Fossil, [300].
Histioderma, [46].
Hopkins on Solidity of the Earth, [6].
Hudson River Group, [60].
Hull on Geological Periods, [186].
Hunt, Dr. T. S., on Volcanic Action, [7];
on Chemistry of Primeval Earth, [11];
on Lingulæ, [41].
Huronian Formation, [36].
Huxley on Coal, [132];
on Carboniferous Reptiles, [145];
on Dinosaurs, [202];
on Paley’s Argument from Design, [348];
on Good and Evil, [349];
on Intuitive and Rational Actions, [391];
on tendency of Evolutionist views, [348].
Hylonomus, [148].
I
Ice-action in Permian, [168];
in Post-pliocene, [270].
Ichthyosaurus, [213].
Iguanodon, [202].
Insects, Devonian, [107];
Carboniferous, [135].
Intelligence of Animals, Nature of, [328].
J
Jurassic, subdivisions of, [190].
K
Kames, [286].
Kaup on Dinotherium, [251].
Kent’s Cavern, [304].
King-crabs of Carboniferous, [154].
King on Carboniferous Reptiles, [143].
L
Labyrinthodon, [201],
Lælaps, [203].
Lamp-shells, [40].
Land-snails of Carboniferous, [138].
La Place’s Nebular Theory, [7].
Laurentian Rocks, [18];
Life in the, [23];
Plants of the, [32].
Lepidodendron, [103], [106], [127].
Leptophleum, [104].
Limestone Corniferous, [96];
Nummulitic, [241];
Milioline, [243];
Silurian, [64];
Origin of, [27], [63], [89].
Limulus, [154].
Lingulæ, [39].
Lingula Flags, [38].
Logan, Sir W., on Laurentian Rocks, [18];
on Reptilian Footprints, [143].
London Clay, [247].
Longmynd Rocks, [38], [47].
Lower Helderberg Group, [62].
Ludlow Group, [62].
Lyell, Sir C., on Devonian Limestone, [89];
on Wealden, [191];
on Classification of the Tertiary, [238].
M
Machairodus, [250].
Magnesian Limestones, [166].
Mammals of the Mesozoic, [208];
of the Eocene, [247];
of the Miocene, [250];
of the Pliocene, [256];
of the Post-glacial, [300].
Man, Advent of, [286].
Man, Antiquity of, [292];
History of, according to Theory of Creation, [377];
according to Evolution, [381];
widely different from Apes, [360];
a new type, [365];
Primitive, not a Savage, [367];
his Spiritual Nature, [384], [370], [387];
Locality of his Origin, [373];
Primeval, according to Creation, [377];
according to Evolution, [381].
Mayhill Sandstone, [60].
Medina Sandstone, [60].
Megalosaurus, [203].
Menevian Formation, [38].
Mesozoic Ages, [188];
subdivisions of, [189];
Flora of, [199];
Coal of, [201];
Crustaceans of the, [225];
Reptiles of the, [201], [212].
Metalliferous Rocks, [167].
Metamorphism, [21].
Microlestes, [208].
Milioline Limestones, [243].
Miller on Old Bed Sandstone, [86].
Millipedes, Fossil, [136].
Miocene Plants, [260];
Climate, [264];
Mammals of, [250].
Mississippi, Delta of the, [296].
Modern Period, [283].
Mosasaurus, [206].
Morse on Lingula, [39].
Murchison on the Silurian, [56].
N
Nebular Theory, [7].
Neolithic Age, [284].
Neozoic Ages, [236];
divisions of, [239].
Newberry on Dinichthys, [99].
Nicholson on Graptolites, [72],
Nummulitic Limestones, [241].
O
Oldhamia, [45].
Old Bed Sandstone, [86].
Oneida Conglomerate. [69].
Orthoceratites, [69], [154].
Oscillations of Continents, [179].
Owen on Dinosaurs, [202];
on Marsupials, [209].
P
Palæolithic Age, [284], [289].
Palæophis, [245].
Palæozoic Life, [181];
diagram of, [186].
Paley on Design in Nature; his illustration of the watch, [349].
Peat of Abbeville, [294].
Pengelly on Kent’s Hole, [304].
Pentremites, [153].
Periods, Geological, [195], [175].
Permian Age, [160];
Geography of the, [163];
Ice-action in the, [168];
Plants of the, [172];
Reptiles of the, [172].
Phillips on Dawn of Life, [30];
on Ceteosaurus, [204].
Pictet on Post-pliocene Mammals, [256];
on Post-glacial Animals, [357].
Pictures of Primeval Man, [376].
Pierce on Diminution of Earth’s Rotation, [165].
Pines of the Devonian, [105];
of the Carboniferous, [131];
of the Permian, [173].
Placoid Fishes, [96].
Plants of the Laurentian, [32];
of the Silurian, [76];
of the Devonian, [102];
of the Carboniferous, [124];
of the Permian, [172];
of the Mesozoic, [199];
of the Tertiary [258];
classification of, [122].
Plateaus, Continental, [57].
Plesiosaurus, [215].
Pliocene, Climate of, [266];
Mammals of, [256].
Pliosaurus, [215].
Pluvial Period, [287].
Post-glacial Age, [283], [292].
Post-pliocene Period, [274];
cold, [278];
Ice-action in the, [270];
Subsidence, [279];
Elevation, [284];
Shells, evidence of, against Derivation, [358];
Mammals, evidence of, against Derivation, [357].
Potsdam Sandstone, [38].
Prestwich on St. Acheul, [294].
Primordial Age, [36];
Crustacean of the, [42].
Protichnites, [45].
Protorosaurus, [172].
Prototaxites, [76].
Psilophyton, [76], [103].
Pteraspis, [76].
Pterichthys, [98].
Pterodactyls, [206].
Pterygotus, [93].
Pupa vetusta, [139].
Q
Quebec Group, [60].
R
Rain-marks, [47].
Ramsay on Permian, [168].
Red Sandstones, their Origin, [110], [166].
Reptiles of the Carboniferous, [143];
of the Permian, [172];
of the Mesozoic, [201], [212].
Rhinoceros, Fossil, [300].
Rocks, Colours of, [110].
Rotation of the Earth, its Gradual Diminution, [165].
S
Salter on Fossil Crustacea, [155].
Sedgwick on Cambrian, [56], [75].
Seeley on Pterodactyls, [206].
Shrinkage-cracks, [47].
Sigillaria, [104], [124].
Silurian Ages, [56];
Cephalopoda of the, [69];
Corals of the, [63];
Crinoids of the [68];
Crustaceans of the, [71];
Fishes of the, [74];
Plants of the, [76].
Siluro-Cambrian, use of the term, [56].
Slaty Structure, [48].
Solidity of the Earth, [6].
Somme, R., Gravels of, [292].
Species, Nature of the, [327];
how Created, [352].
Spencer, his Exposition of Evolution, [321], [331].
Spiritual Nature of Man, [384], [370], [387].
Spore-cases in Coals and Shales, [106].
Stalagmite of Caves, [305].
Striated Rock-surfaces, [269].
Stumps, Fossil of Carboniferous, [140].
Synthetic Types, [181].
T
Table of Devonian Rocks, [85];
of Palæozoic Ages, [187];
of Mesozoic Ages, [234];
of Neozoic Ages, [298];
of Post-pliocene, [276].
Temperature of Interior of the Earth, [4].
Tertiary Period, [236];
Mammals of, [247], [250], [256];
classification of its Rocks, [238].
Thomson, Sir W., on Solidity of the Earth, [6].
Time, Geological Divisions of, [175].
Tinière, Cone of, [293].
Trenton Limestone, [59], [63].
Trias, Divisions of, [189];
Footprints in the, [203].
Trilobites, [43], [94], [154];
Feet of, [43].
Turtles of Mesozoic, [218].
Tylor on Pluvial Period, [287].
Tyndall on Carbonic Acid in Atmosphere, [123].
U
Uniformitarianism in Geology, [8].
Utica Shale, [60].
V
Volcanic Action, [7];
of Cambrian Age, [36];
of Silurian Age, [62];
of Devonian Age, 81, [83].
Von Dechen on Reptiles of Carboniferous, [143], [145].
Von Meyer on Dinosaurs, [202].
W
Walchia, [173].
Wallace, his views on Inapplicability of Natural Selection to Man, [368].
Wealden, [191].
Wenlock Group, [62].
Williamsonia gigas, [200].
Williamson on Calamites, [181].
Woodward on Pterygotus, [93].
Z
Zaphrentis [92].
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