Your Bible deals with Smith, Brown, and Jones."
"Well, what are your organisms and nations but collections of my Smiths,
Browns, and Joneses? My Bible deals with individuals because there is
nothing else to deal with. The individual conscience is the beginning of
everything."
"Ah! So you would found your evolution of humanity upon the increasing
operation of what you call conscience?"
"Probably I would not give _all_ the credit to what I call conscience.
Probably I'd give some of it to what I call intellect."
"In that case you would almost certainly fall into a fatal error."
"Why, don't you consider that the higher the intellectual development
the higher the type?"
"Suppose we go more slowly," said Mr. Queed, intently plucking a dead
bough from an overhanging young oak.
"How do you go about measuring a type? When you speak of a high type,
exactly what do you mean?"
"When I speak of a high type," said Sharlee, who really did not know
exactly what she meant, "I will merely say that I mean a type that is
high--lofty, you know--towering over other types."
She flaunted a gloved hand to suggest infinite altitude.
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