THE RELIGION OF NATUKK 



of conscious thought is not conspicuously located 

 in the human brain, when science cannot even point 

 out the seat of life? 



Between a living man and a corpse there is all 

 the difference which we see between machinery 

 working at full blast and the same at rest. But in 

 the case of the machinery we know exactly where 

 to apply the match to light the fuel that will start 

 the engine; whereas we have no man of science 

 who, if he were dying and some mysterious power 

 placed in his hands a spark of new life, would know 

 in which part of his body it should be placed. 



Thus, even if the acquisition of the power of 

 conscious thought were so wide a departure from 

 the line of mere animal intelligence as the magni- 

 tude of its consequences might seem to suggest, 

 there would be no reason to expect to find traces 

 of it in the bodily structure of our brain and 

 nerves. 



But the truth is that the departure which savage 

 man has made from the line of animal intelligence 

 is very slight indeed. Perhaps we 'can sum up the 

 difference most simply by saying that man, even 

 in a savage state, thinks about things, while other 

 animals merely think of things. By connections of 

 ideas the animal is able to adopt a line of action 

 which seems to indicate what we call intelligence, 

 but such actions are only of the kind which nature 

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