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perfect correspondence with nature. The eye developed to light, touch to objects, the ear to sound, the taste to flavor, the nostrils to odor. The acme of forms possible through adjustment merely to external realities is reached in the brute, which has all these faculties. Yet there is truth, purity, charity, righteousness, holiness, godliness; but adjustment to sound waves, flavors, odors, light, and material objects does not produce these, for the brute is as unaware of them as if they did not exist, although his natural senses are incomparably keener than man's. When development had reached its height through adjustment to external realities, then commenced the development by adjustment to internal realities—to the Divine Human. Through this adjustment came the human, as a superstructure to the animal.

If the eye developed by adjustment to light, the ear to sound, and the animal