HUMAN LIFE 



in human evolution which enabled them 

 to dominate their brute-inheritance in a 

 most wonderful and encouraging way. 



An authorized lecturer representing a 

 certain organization with many adherents 

 stated in an address in Washington the 

 other evening that the world is a mental 

 phenomenon and hence that all the 

 things we know in it are controllable by 

 mind, or indeed are simply manifestations 

 of mind. That rather seems to put in the 

 hands of each person possessing mentality 

 the power to do things to or with this old 

 world and the conditions of life on it 

 much as he wills to do them. 



I must confess that the biologist sees 

 the world differently. He finds it com- 

 posed of a lot of things, and sees going on, 

 in and about it, a lot of things which 

 are hard to reduce to mental phenomena 

 and hard to make amenable to his desires 

 and control. He realizes, of course, that 

 without the sense organs and brain no 

 one would have much awareness of the 

 world; that, indeed, one might think it 

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