94 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



investigation of the infinite series of phenomena 

 and relations which its brain will demand through 

 time and space ? Whither will the parallelism of 

 these series conduct it ? What limits will there 

 be to progress ? 



Although Nature is made upof one indefinite series 

 of phenomena and human intelligence, an adapta- 

 tion of successive integrations starting from the 

 lowest grade, the progress of humanity is indefinite. 

 Accepting the theory of evolution, the perfecting 

 of human intelligence knows no limits ; this 

 parallelism, in which the one is a reflex of the 

 other, must be prolonged indefinitely as time 

 goes on. 



Of Nature we know nothing, or hardly anything; 

 to claim to read the future, to fix limits to human 

 affairs, without even knowing the conditions of the 

 problem, seems to me as great an absurdity as if I 

 expected my son, just beginning to read, to explain 

 to me the works of Spencer. All religions and 

 philosophies have the same original fault of wish- 

 ing to solve problems without the necessary data. 

 In his total ignorance, man fancied he knew what 

 he was, whence he came, and whither he was going. 

 These are questions for future man, but in a future 

 still very distant ; then perhaps these questions 

 may be answered ; at present we must learn, to 

 enable the men of the future to answer them. 



