EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



present level of comprehension does not suffice for a 

 real understanding of such an organism. Therefore no 

 attempt will be made to draw any physical picture. 

 We shall limit ourselves to the attempt to predict some 

 of the attributes of the organism. On this basis it 

 appears reasonable to assume that the ratio of effective- 

 ness and consciousness of such an organism as compared 

 to present-day man, will be of about the same order of 

 magnitude as the ratio of these qualities in modern 

 man compared to those in a cell colony. The vistas 

 which such a development opens, are staggering in 

 their implications. Certainly, if the increase of capa- 

 bility and consciousness will be anywhere near as great 

 as our suppositions lead us to believe, then answers to 

 present-day man's unanswerable questions will become 

 quite possible. Full understanding will probably turn 

 out to be of a nature utterly inaccessible to the human 

 mind at this time. Perhaps the very questions will be 

 found to have been improperly put. So when it is con- 

 cluded that full answers to the fundamental problems 

 cited seem beyond human comprehension, then this 

 conclusion applies to the presently existing human 

 mind, but not to the consciousness of some organism 

 that will live some billions of years after us — yet whose 

 ancestors we may chance to be, just as some primitive 

 cells about one billion years ago were our ancestors. 

 There is, after all, no reason for believing that the level 

 of insight into nature that human beings have presently 



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