It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life — sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself — presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.
The exact phrase ”mind over matter”;first appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man;”Sir Charles Lyell” ;(1797&;1875) and refers to the increasing status and evolutionary growth of the minds of animals and man throughout Earth history (via adukuraha)