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explanation of it. This is evident from the proverb that says
walls have ears.' Now, how could walls have ears unless they have evolved them out in the course of evolution ?
We must now refer to wings which would be our eighth miracle. They came because some lower aniinals began to jump up to catch their prey. Notice that man had no need to juinp for anything, and monkeys detest the idea, as is evident by their habit of pulling out the feathers and wings of birds when they catch them. This is why their species are without wings.
As for the intellect, the ninth wonder of evolution, it is only too obviously the outcome of the external modifying influences. If it could be shown that in the past some species had evolved out a brain on their hips and some had it placed in their toes the evidence would be complete ; but you could not expect time to have preserved every bit of evidence for you. Look: man alone has evolved out the hrain, because he alone is the one who needs it most, since he is at war with his own species while others are not fratricidal like himn. Besides the ever-wakeful Nature knew that man alone could make proper use of the intellect, since he alone has hands. Other species cannot even handle a gun, much less think of exterminating their race. That is why he alone is endowed with the intellect. Certain other members of the inainmal group are about to get the intellect, as they have now begun to hate their own species, and are expected, in due course of time, to come up to man in that regard. No doubt, certain observations made during the last war throw some doubt on the dependence of the intellectual function on the brain, but we confidently look forward to another great war to demonstrate the contrary, and hope it will not be long in coming."
The tenth wonder is memory which makes it possible to remember one's grievances against one's enemies. Man has evolved it out because he has got to pay back his enemies in
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