We Must Learn Not To Take Traditional

Now, If The Cooperation Of Some Thousands Of Millions Of Cells In Our Brain Can Produce Our Consciousness, A True Singularity, The Idea Becomes Vastly More Plausible That The Cooperation Of Humanity, Or Some Sections Of It, May Determine What Comte Calls A Great Being.

Quantitative Work Shows Clearly That Natural Selection Is A Reality, And That, Among Other Things, It Selects Mendelian Genes, Which Are Known To Be Distributed At Random Through Wild Populations, And To Follow The Laws Of Chance In Their Distribution To Offspring. In Other Words, They Are An Agency Producing Variation Of The Kind Which Darwin Postulated As The Raw Material On Which Selection Acts.

Science Affects The Average Man And Woman In Two Ways Already. He Or She Benefits By Its Application Driving A Motor-car Or Omnibus Instead Of A Horse-drawn Vehicle, Being Treated For Disease By A Doctor Or Surgeon Rather Than A Witch, And Being Killed With An Automatic Pistol Or Shell In Place Of A Dagger Or A Battle-axe.

Science Is As Yet In Its Infancy, And We Can Foretell Little Of The Future Save That The Thing That Has Not Been Is The Thing That Shall Be; That No Beliefs, No Values, No Institutions Are Safe.

The Creator, If He Exists, Has A Special Preference For Beetles.