hat the ear hears. It
perceives according to its animal senses, the scent of the nostril, the
taste of the tongue. It comprehends not beyond its sense perceptions. The
animal is confined to its feelings and sensibilities, a prisoner of the
senses. Beyond these, in the finer higher processes of reasoning, the
animal cannot go. For instance, the animal cannot conceive of the earth
whereon it stands as a spherical object because the spherical shape of the
earth is a matter of conscious reasoning. It is not a matter of sense
perception. An animal in Europe could not foresee and plan the discovery
of America as Columbus did. It could not take the globe map of the earth
and scan the various continents, saying, "This is the eastern hemisphere;
there must be another, the western hemisphere." No animal could know these
things for the reason that they are referable to intellection. The animal
cannot become aware of the fact that the earth is revolving and the sun
stationary. Only processes of reasoning can come to this conclusion. The
outward eye sees the sun as revolving. It mistakes the stars and the
planets as moving about the earth. But reason decides their orbit, knows
that the earth is moving and the other worlds fixed, knows that the sun is
the solar center and ever occupies the same place, proves that it is the
earth which revolves around it. Such conclusions are entirely
intellectual, not according to the senses.

Hence, we know that in the human organism there is a center of
intellection, a power of intellectual operation which is the discoverer of
the realities of things. This power can unravel the mysteries of
phenomena. It can comprehend that which is knowable, not alone the
sensible. All the inventions are its products. For all of these have been
the mysteries of nature. There was a time when the energy of electricity
was a mystery of nature, but that collective reality which is manifest in
man discovered this mystery of nature, this latent force. Having
discovered it, man brought it into the plane of visibility. All the
sciences which we now utilize are the products of that wondrous reality.
But the animal is deprived of its operations. The arts we now enjoy are
the expressions of that marvelous reality. The animal is bereft of them
because these conscious realities are peculiar to the human spirit. All
the traces are the outcoming of the perfections which comprehend
realities. The animal is bereft of these.

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