AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



of life, that, for all practical purposes, 

 these two human beings, and hence all 

 others, must be looked on as possessed 

 of at least some qualities and capacities 

 essentially different from those found 

 anywhere else in Nature. 



But this is not at all to say that I must 

 recognize anything supernatural in these 

 qualities. They may simply be such 

 different and such extraordinary natural 

 qualities that all the study of the most 

 widely versed and wisest student of all 

 the rest of Nature will not enable him to 

 understand these special human qualities 

 and capacities on the basis of this study 

 alone. The scientist can be bigot just as 

 well as the theologian, politician, or any- 

 body else. And that scientist who would 

 pretend to say that because he has 

 studied Nature all his life and has fa- 

 miliarized himself with what has been 

 learned about Nature by all the other 

 naturalists, he can dogmatically declare 

 what are the limitations of natural possi- 

 bility, is simply a bigot. Just as are those 

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