THE PRIMAL MIND 
man and the universe are one. Yet the body seems 
to know things which the mind does not know, as 
there is a wisdom in the universe that man cannot 
compass. We separate ourselves in thought from 
our bodies, on the one hand, and from the universe, 
on the other, while in reality the unity in both cases 
is complete. 
I think the knowledge the animal seems to possess 
is of the same kind and degree as the knowledge its 
body seems to possess, and which enables it to dis- 
charge all its functions and build itself up and repro- 
duce itself. But man transcends his body, he knows 
more than it does, more than outward nature about 
him does. It is as if he had eyes while they had only 
the sense of touch. His reason is his mind’s eye; 
man sees, but his dog, as it were, goes by touch. 
