CHAPTER VII 



GOD IN MAN 



What is Consciousness? Imperfections of Language 

 " The Likeness of God "The Unity of Nature Types 

 of Evolution The Birth of a Chicken Story of the 

 Gall Human Progress The Creation Conflicting 

 Critics The Virgin Birth and Incarnation Science's 

 Limitations. 



WHAT, then, is this human consciousness, which 

 makes so enormous a difference between man and 

 other animals? With this question we leave the 

 fringe of the subject and touch the connecting link 

 between religion and science. 



Consciousness is the power of considering our 

 own actions and estimating our own feelings from 

 a judicial point of view, of discriminating be- 

 tween good and evil, and of controlling our natu- 

 ral instincts accordingly. This power is the dis- 

 tinguishing feature of humanity. It is that which 

 justifies our claim to have been made " in the like- 

 ness of God." One impulse of an animal may be 

 checked by a stronger impulse, as when a hungry 

 dog refrains from taking meat from fear of its 

 owner's displeasure; but it is only man who looks 

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