The comparative method applied to the study of his religious growth has shown how man's thoughts have widened in the unceasing purpose which runs through his spiritual no less than his physical evolution.

Out of the spiritual protoplasm of magic have evolved philosopher and physician, as well as priest.

Magic and religion control the uncharted sphere--the supernatural, the superhuman: science seeks to know the world, and through knowing, to control it.

Ray Lankester remarks that Man is Nature's rebel, and goes on to say: "The mental qualities which have developed in Man, though traceable in a vague and rudimentary condition in some of his animal associates, are of such an unprecedented power and so far dominate everything else in his activities as a living organism, that they have to a very large extent, if not entirely, cut him off from the general operation of that process of Natural Selection and survival of the fittest which up to their appearance had been the law of the living world.

They justify the view that Man forms a new departure in the gradual unfolding of Nature's predestined scheme.