And all this political life is the spontaneous work of unintelligent units; that is to say, we have results exceeding the highest ever attained by human intelligence, long before intelligence or sentience has yet been evolved.

Nature in her ascent leaves nothing behind, but at each step subordinates and glorifies:mass, crystal, organ, sensation, sentience, reflection.

" The superscription on the envelope which I held in my hand stared up at me with all the sentience of a living thing.

Attributing to the Earth, thus apparently separated from the Sun, some macrocosmic sentience, what must have been her wondering dream, finding herself at once thrust away and securely held, poised between her flight and her bond, and so swinging into a regular orbit about the Sun, while at the same time, in her rotation, turning to him and away from himinto the light, and into the darkness, forever denying and confessing her lord!