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in science, particularly in our understanding of 

 evolution, has enabled us to give a more objective 

 account than ever before of what is involved in the 

 concept God^ and so to pave the way for a consensus 

 of thought on the question. 



It will be observed that there is no idea of person- 

 ality implicit in this conception of God — God may 

 or may not possess personality. It will be for us 

 later to investigate that particular aspect of the 

 problem. 



It now remains to deal with the inner reality. 

 Man has a wholly new type of mind. He is social 

 and capable of speech. He generalizes, and he has 

 a very highly developed power of association. This 

 combination gives him a great many possibilities 

 hitherto denied to life. In the first place, he is able 

 to order his experiences in a totally new way, differing 

 from the old very much as a classified card-index 

 differs from a rough diary-record of events. The 

 organization of his mind is elastic, capable of in- 

 definite expansion and of specialization in any 

 direction. 



That being so, there will be always parts of his 

 mind wholly or at least partially undeveloped ; and 

 in any case the capacities which he must employ 

 in his everyday life, the region of his mind illuminated 

 by the attention needed in the struggle for existence, 

 constitute but a fraction of his mental self and its 

 potentialities. 



