WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



wonderful mind. But just because every 

 one knows this, the important scientific 

 aspect of the subject is overlooked alto- 

 gether. For as Science rates other animals 

 according both to their bodily structure 

 and their degree of intelligence, so she 

 should scientifically account for the whole 

 of man, for his mind no less than for his 

 body. Science might as well limit her ob- 

 servations to his skin as to neglect ex- 

 plaining how, on her principles, his mind 

 naturally fits into her scheme of the de- 

 velopment of life on earth. The fact that 

 he has an exceptional mind does not ab- 

 solve her from a scientific explanation of 

 that fact. In the rest of her ascending 

 series of animal forms, Science has no trou- 

 ble with any member of them, not except- 

 ing the chimpanzee. In him she finds that 

 his mind or intelligence corresponds to his 

 brain, and vice versa. But with the next 

 primate, man, an immeasurable gap oc- 

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