Part I: The Evolution of Man's Thought If we traced man's
history back into the dim past we should come to a place where
he did not consciously know himself. We should come to a place
where Instinctive Man alone existed; for the self-conscious man
had not yet evolved. Nothing can be more apparent than that man,
as he now appears, is the result of growth and unfoldment. But
in order to unfold, he had to have something from which to
unfold, and since he is intelligent, he must have unfolded from
an intelligent cause. Instinctive Man, then, means that Inner
Something, or Life, which we do not see but which is, of course,
there. We might say that Instinctive Life is God in man, or the
idea of God, working through man. But if Instinctive Man is an
idea of God, why is he not perfect? The answer is that he is
perfect, but that as soon as individuality is evolved he must be
left alone to discover himself. Even God could not make a
mechanical Individuality. If man is created with the attributes
of self-choice and free