interior forces, and the man becomes a Sensist possessed of no higher life than that which flows in through the body. Truly he can then reason, but his reasons are as false as he is sensuous, and his conclusions are as lightless as his mind is sightless. Man is then simply an animal that thinks, or one whose mind is full of hallucination. Instead of regenerating into the image and likeness of God, man may degenerate below the animal, becoming first sceptical, then agnostic, and at last an Atheist. He is then lower than an animal because the animal never sinks below its instinct, always keeping in the order for which it is created; while man may, because of his free-will, fall out of his order and fail to realize the purpose of his creation, which is to know and to love God. He is then lower than an animal because he is out of the order in which he is created and has neither instinct nor intelligence to guide
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