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MAY I briefly comment on a paragraph in “Current Topics and Events” on p. 866 of NATURE of June 14? The writer of the note, who is evidently an authoritative biologist, expresses himself with more vigour and certainty than I should have ventured on in an alien though admired subject. My claim is that some mental or psychic activity or influence can be inferred from the facts of evolution; but to step from that to the influence and purpose of a Mind with a very big M—though a step natural to faith—is a greater stride than I suppose science alone can ever take: for the intermediate grades of intelligence are perhaps infinite.
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LODGE, O. Darwin and Evolution. Nature 113, 926 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113926a0
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