And  there  is  more  to  add.  The  facts  just
described  are  being  now  gradually  adumbrated  by
other  supervening  facts — the  mental  counterpart  of
the  physical  facts.  It  is  now  beginning  to  be  per-
ceived that  this  recapitulation  of  the  history  of  its
species  by  the  individual  is  not  confined  to  the
mere  phenomena  of  the  body  —  that  it  does  not


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come  to  an  end  when  the  bodily  structure  is  com-     chapter  4
plete,  but  is  renewed  in  the  post-natal  development  The  h^n
of  consciousness  and  the  faculties  of  the  mind.     As  ^J^?
the  embryo  of  the  baby  recapitulates  the  evolution  ™usly  one  in

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of  man  as  an  organism,  so  does  the  progress  of  the
baby  from  an  unthinking  to  a  thinking  being,
recapitulate  the  evolution  of  the  specifically  human
intellect ;  and  each  mother  who  has  watched  with
pride,  as  something  peculiar  and  original,  the
growth  of  her  child's  mind,  from  the  days  of  the
cradle  to  the  days  of  the  first  lesson -book,  has
really  been  watching,  compressed  into  a  few  brief
years,  the  stupendous  process  which  began  in
the  darkest  abyss  of  time,  and  connects  our
thoughts,  like  our  bodies,  with  the  primary  living
substance — whether  this  be  wholly  identical  with
what  we  call  matter  or  no.
Out  of  the  deep,  my  child,  out  of  the  deep —
Down  yon  dark  wave  thou  comest —

this  is  the  cradle-song  of  science — the  cradle-song
of  the  latest  revelation.
