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through the processes of reproduction, is to 

 credit the maximum product to the minimum 

 process. "A due consideration of it leads to 

 the curious paradox that if any two animals 

 be compared, the zoologically lower will be 

 separated from the common ancestor by a 

 larger number of generations. " 



To say that intelligence is a function of the 

 brain, is to say that the brain creates some- 

 thing out of nothing. The brain is clearly 

 a mechanism employed in the process of 

 making intelligence out of some pre-exist- 

 ing thing, but science has indicated nothing 

 out of which it is made, or any work involved 

 in the making. As far as our present science 

 is concerned, the qualities which characterize 

 man and the higher animals have come into 

 existence from nothing, and are as much 

 special creations as anything stated in biblical 

 history. 



Of course scientists do not really believe 

 that something is produced from nothing. 

 The revolution in thought which has come 

 from establishing as a fact that modern 



