(6) memory; (7) abstract thought; (8) interest in 

 future conditions ; long-headed selfishness ; (9) ability 

 to discard present for future pleasures ; (10) ethics. 



Non-automatic powers involved in the power of 

 choice. Self-consciousness and intellectual processes 

 generally a result of natural selection in complex en- 

 vironment. Primitive man must think or die ; auto- 

 matic nerve connections insufficient. Once started on 

 intellectual growth ; this most valued result of nat- 

 ural selection. Its efficiency increased by mutual aid. 

 Growth of civilization. 



1. Man has assumed an anthropocentric universe, 

 built by an anthropomorphic force. For we know no 

 other names for the infinite intellect and will than 

 those drawn from human experience. 



2. Man has assumed a separate origin for himself. 



3. That all things on earth must justify their ex- 

 istence by helping him ; what he cannot use he will 

 destroy. 



4. That forces of Nature do and should make an ex- 

 ception in his case. Spirit of evil in them when they 

 do not. 



One good result of civilization that it enables "to 

 endure the agonies of suspended judgment." 



" A sacred kinship I would not forego 

 Binds me to all that breathes ; 



I am the child of earth and air and sea. 

 My lullaby by hoarse silurian storms 

 Was chanted. Through endless changing forms 

 Of plant and bird and beast unceasingly 

 The toiling ages wrought to fashion me. 



