A little while ago no one would admit that animals had intelligence.
This is now conceded. At any rate, then, vegetables had no intelligence.
This is being fast disputed. Even Darwin leans towards the view that
they have intelligence. At any rate, then, the inorganic world has not
got an intelligence. Even this is now being denied. Death is being
defeated at all points. No sooner do we think we have got a _bona fide_
barrier than it breaks down. The divisions between varieties, species,
genus, all gone; between instinct and reason, gone; between animals and
plants, gone; between man and the lower animals, gone; so, ere long, the
division between organic and inorganic will go and will take with it the
division between mind and matter.