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and sincere aspirations after religious light concluded "that, 

 if there is a God, he is knowable (if knowable at all) by intui- 

 tion and not by reason." xA.nd "it would be against reason 

 itself to suppose that God, even if he exists, can be known 

 by reason; he must be known if knowable at all, by intuition." 

 (55: 156). It if can be shown that the child of a savage or 

 of a civilized family can be reared apart from intercourse with 

 other human beings, and amid the uniform surroundings of 

 a lighted chamber, and can yet develop, hy intuition, a high 

 religious appreciation or a perception, this demand might be 

 conceded. But no slight proof even of such has ever been 

 forthcoming. 



Under the first line of inquiry then, we have already seen 

 that the law of proenvironment, working even in protoplasmic 

 structures that were energized by biotic energy only, has ap- 

 parently resulted in the perception of, and capacity to grow 

 or move toward, the most satisfying environment for the or- 

 ganism. Again in nucleate plants and most animals the same 

 law, working in chromatin structures, that were energized 

 by cognitic as well as biotic energy, has linked together all 

 stimuli into one resultant, that is the most satisfying for the 

 organism, and the resultant proenvironal pathway thus out- 

 lined is then followed. 



In higher animals we have concluded that the complex 

 resultant of several compounded resultants becomes the pro- 

 environal stimulus, when energized by cogitic as well as cog- 

 nitic and biotic streams of energy, and when acting along 

 the neuratin structures, which determines and initiates mental 

 and moral action along definite lines. 



In the succeeding context we hope to show that, by the 

 same law of proenvironment, steadily advancing lines of men- 

 tal complexity, and so of mental molecular organization in 

 the frontal lobes of the brain, have caused man to look out, 

 feel out, and otherwise advance beyond himself y and even be- 

 yond his merely moral obligations to his fellow-men^ so as to as- 

 pire toward, reverence, and understand the relation which he 

 bears to the forces of the world and of the universe. 



