I am glad I hear a voice mentioning Darwin. Yes, Darwin has taught us that we have descended from hairy ancestors with arboreal habits. We have still representatives of these Darwinian ancestors of ours. They have Mind which directs their actions, which makes them remember previous experiences and even provide for future. But surely even according to Darwin to Darwin we had left that anthropoid stage behind us some millions of years ago. We are now entirely distinct from them. What is it that differentiates us from them if it is not the Spirit. A human therefore is Body plus Mind plus Spirit.
A human is happy, progresses, and looks after himself properly only if he developes these three components of his in a harmonious way. These three components must march abreast of one another. I wonder if any of you had travelled in village parts outside the bus route. If you have done so you can recall to your mind the double-bullock cart. Imagine if you had not actually experienced it, what will happen, if one of the bulls begins to gallop while the other one begins to lie down. Surely the cart will be upset and you will be injured. So it is with humans; if Body, Mind and Spirit do not move abreast of one another the human will be injured. Our ills are due to unequal development in these three factors. Even the huge inter-national travail which human society is experiencing to-day is traceable to the Mind and Body forging ahead while the Spirit is starved and left Behind, unattended to, unfed and undeveloped.
Assuming then that physical improvement by itself is inadequate to carry us forward, nay is harmful to us, let us see what the humans have done to develop the Mind and the Spirit in resonance with the feeding of the Body.
Mind has to be fed with thought. It is best developed by exchange of thought. Hence the chief problem of the earliest humans was to find a means of transmitting thought from one to another. They struggled for several thousands of years. to find out some means of transmitting thought. Even animals found that the use of voice was of some help. But it was not adequate. By varying the quality of their screamings they could at best transmit a few ideas like anger, love, warning and so on. The attempt of the earliest humans was to intensify the range of modulation of the voice. They went on experimenting with it. At long last they invented articulate speech. We are all so much accustomed to this power of speech that we don't realise what a struggle it should have been for our ancestors to have invented this power. Before the new-born completes the first year, he
