AS TO OURSELVES 



curs, not between the body or the brain of 

 either, for in both these respects the two 

 are similar, but there is a gap in intelli- 

 gence for which there is no measure. It 

 requires some thinking adequately to esti- 

 mate how great that gap is, and we have 

 been trying by following the lines of the 

 physical connections of man's bodily senses 

 with his mind to perceive how tremendous 

 the break really is. 



Years ago I was once officially engaged 

 in counting the assets of a great bank, in 

 the course of which I held in my hand a 

 piece of printed paper, with which had I 

 owned it myself I could buy the cattle on a 

 thousand hills. But had it been offered to 

 any chimpanzee who has ever been evolved, 

 to choose between that piece of paper and 

 a cocoanut, the cocoanut would have been 

 reached for every time. The nut and 

 the paper belonged to two worlds of things 

 infinitely apart. 



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