158 Sense, Intellect \ Conscience. 



magnitudes, and situations. Both these func 

 tions of the eye were eminently useful in the strug 

 gle for life : they enabled their animal possessor 

 to get food more easily and escape foes more 

 deftly. Yet the evolutionist does not hold the 

 eye is merely a utility. Bringing the surprise of 

 something new and unexpected, the eye, he will 

 recognize, is useful only because it makes us 

 aware of fact. But if you accept the evidence of 

 the eye when it testifies to the colors or sizes of 

 objects, you cannot reject the depositions of con 

 science to the moral character of conduct and 

 motives. This is a new mental function, and has 

 the same claim upon you as the other. The va 

 lidity of the intuition, &quot;Injustice is wrong,&quot; is 

 neither greater nor less than the validity of the 

 perception, &quot; Snow is white.&quot; The vision of both 

 the outer and the inner eye is useful, but useful 

 simply because each gives us new revelations of 

 reality. 



The same result is reached by comparing the 

 deliverances of conscience with the discoveries of 

 intelligence. The lowest animals have neither 

 conscience nor reason. The infinite advantage of 

 either we have already described. Even the 

 germ of reason suffices to make man lord of crea 

 tion. Think only of the significance of the dis- 



