The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man is a material outgrowth and that the cognizance of good 172:1 or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, con- stitutes his happiness or misery. Godless Evolution 172:3 Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms to monkeys and from monkeys into men amounts to nothing in the right direction and 172:6 very much in the wrong. Materialism grades the human species as rising from matter upward. How then is the material species main- 172:9 tained, if man passes through what we call death and death is the Rubicon of spirituality? Spirit can form no real link in this supposed chain of material being. 172:12 But divine Science reveals the eternal chain of existence as uninterrupted and wholly spiritual; yet this can be realized only as the false sense of being disappears. Degrees of development 172:15 If man was first a material being, he must have passed through all the forms of matter in order to become man. If the material body is man, he is a portion of 172:18 matter, or dust. On the contrary, man is the image and likeness of Spirit; and the belief that there is Soul in sense or Life in matter obtains in mortals, /alias/ 172:21 mortal mind, to which the apostle refers when he says that we must "put off the old man." Identity not lost What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the 172:24 material structure? If the real man is in the material body, you take away a portion of the man when you amputate a limb; the surgeon destroys 172:27 manhood, and worms annihilate it. But the loss of a limb or injury to a tissue is sometimes the quickener of manli- ness; and the unfortunate cripple may present more no- 172:30 bility than the statuesque athlete, - teaching us by his very deprivations, that "a man's a man, for a' that." When man is man When we admit that matter (heart, blood, brain, acting 173:1 through the five physical senses) constitutes man, we fail to see how anatomy can distinguish between 173:3 humanity and the brute, or determine when man is really /man/ and has progressed farther than his animal progenitors. Individualization 173:6 When the supposition, that Spirit is within what it creates and the potter is subject to the clay, is individualized, Truth is reduced to the level 173:9 of error, and the sensible is required to be made manifest through the insensible.