156 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



of the calculating boy-prodigies or mathematical 

 genius. Can we be content to regard them as chance 

 by-products of the evolutionary process? Power of 

 this kind, sporadically manifested by a few human 

 beings, suggests strongly that Mind or Intellect existed 

 full-blown before the evolution of the human brain, 

 and that brains are but instruments which permit in 

 various degrees some partial manifestations of the 

 full range of Intellectual power. 



An allied indication Is afforded by the fact that most 

 men seem to be furnished by "Nature" with a larger 

 amount of brain-tissue than they ever succeed In bring- 

 ing into effective action during their lives. There 

 would seem to be no possibility of finding a purely 

 "natural" explanation of this state of affairs. It 

 would seem that the evolution of the brain has been 

 pushed beyond the point that would serve for all 

 present uses, in anticipation of, or In preparation for, 

 some higher development of Intellectual power that 

 lies still In the future, the realization of that poten- 

 tiality being perhaps rendered Impossible at present 

 through lack of development of other organic func- 

 tions. 



Lastly, I find In man's response to beauty some- 

 thing that seems beyond the scope of "natural" ex- 

 planation. Grant that some animals respond to bright 

 colour patterns and to some simple sequences of tone, 

 In a manner that Implies that they find them pleasant; 

 grant that such appreciation may have proved useful 

 and may have been developed through "sexual selec- 

 tion"; grant also the validity of the Lamarcklan prin- 

 ciple, the working of which might be supposed to have 



