ernatural
character? Because the unknown in the past has been assigned to the
supernatural is no indication for us also, in the present age, to
relegate the unknown to divine cause. It is unseemly that minds that
have emancipated themselves should go just so far--as far as _their own
reason_ can explain the unknown--and when their limited reason can go no
further to revert back to the primitive stage where solution is
considered impossible to man save it be "revealed to him by God." If
man's mind is free, if no coercion of any kind is placed on its
exercise, it will expand and unravel what at present is still
fathomless. Give man endless centuries and ample opportunities and he
will unravel the miracles of development and growth just as he has done
other miracles which at first seemed impossible of rational solution.

For how much longer will man be a slave to his inferiority complex with
regard to his own rational capacities? If faith is vital to man, why not
relate it to that which at least holds a promise of solution? Man's mind
has not as yet arrived at the point which might give even the slightest
indication of its ultimate exhaustion. We cannot assume the knowledge of
what man's fullest capacities are. All things must unravel themselves
with the progress of his mind, those things that he cannot explain now,
he must not assign to a superhuman force; man must use his reasoning
faculties to investigate and search for the truth so that these unknown
may become part of the known.

Again to quote Sir Arthur Keith: "Only eighty years have come and gone
since the anatomist obtained his first glimpse of the structural
complexity of the human brain; it will take him eight thousand years and
more to find out the exact part played by every departmental unit of
this colossal system of government which carries on the mental life of a
human being. _We have no reason to think there is anything supernatural
in its manifestation._ As our knowledge of the brain accumulates, the
names and terms we now use will give place to others which have a more
precise meaning. In our present state of ignorance we have to use
familiar and loose terms to explain the workings of the brain--such
words as "soul," "spirit," "heart," "superstition," and "prejudice."
These manifestations of the mind will be dissected and made
understandable."

Science has as yet not fully explained the origin of life on earth, but
there is reason to believe that it w