8 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



out trying to trace the origin of either, and assuming 

 nebulas, trace the evolution of forms from these, by 

 condensation. Another set of philosophers try to re- 

 verse that process, by summoning to the aid of intellect, 

 something called intuition, a kind of enlarged instinct, 

 and which one of them calls a "nebulosity surrounding 

 the bright core of intellect" and growing out of the 

 same basis, viz: experience. This intuition is to dive 

 into the stream of creative evolution to the center, 

 from which the stream of becoming starts, and works as 

 nature works, or is supposed to work, from a center of 

 mobility, and impetus, toward the circumference where 

 visible forms are being made. It is difficult for a brain, 

 whose habit of thought has been along the lines of in- 

 tellect alone, to pluck the meaning of another brain, 

 whose peculiar formation, enables it to go beyond in- 

 tellect, in accounting for the universe and its laws. 

 Mathematics and logic have been the means by which, 

 heretofore, ordinary men have reasoned upon material 

 things. They have thus established the present under- 

 standing of the laws of nature, and naturally apply 

 the same methods to the evolution of life. But these, 

 heretofore, have mentioned, not as a reality, but as a 

 subjective thought only, the Unknowable Absolute. Dar- 

 win reasoned only from the facts apparent to the 

 senses, and never thought that the power beyond ap- 

 pearances could be used to any advantage. Spencer 

 started out well to find the Unknowable Absolute, but 

 stopped short at the end of first part of First Princi- 

 ples, at the impassable barrier of the relativity of all 

 things. But, by means of the intellect, the later 

 philosophers of creative evolution think they see other 

 forms of consciousness which express something more 

 than symbolism in the evolutionary movement. It is 



