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be con trast ed with ki net ic in tel li gence, which is re al ized through for mal ed u ca tion. But why the dev il
did this po ten tial in tel li gence evolve? It couldn’t have aris en for learn ing Latin in English schools. It
couldn’t have evolved for learn ing the cal cu lus, even though al most any one who tries hard enough can
mas ter it. What was the se lec tion pres sure for the emer gence of these la tent abil i ties?” 117

Since Wallace be lieved that organisms evolved by be ing de scend ed from one an oth er via un con -
scious proc ess es, he want ed to dis cov er how this im ag i nary the o ry could ac count for the de vel op ment
of hu man in tel li gence. However, since such a thing nev er ac tu al ly hap pened, he was un a ble to come up
with any log ic to back up that claim. In Wallace’s words:

. . . when all mod ern writers ad mit the great an tiq ui ty of man, most of them main tain the very re cent de vel -

op ment of in tel lect, and will hard ly con tem plate the pos si bil i ty of men equal in men tal ca pac i ty to ourselves,
hav ing ex ist ed in pre his tor ic times. 118

Ramachandran pro vides the fol low ing clar i fi ca tion:

Both the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon cra ni al ca pac i ties were ac tu al ly larg er than ours, and it’s not in con ceiv -
a ble that their la tent po ten tial in tel li gence may have been equal to or even great er than that of Homo sa pi ens. 119

In fact, even Darwin open ly ad mit ted that his the o ry could not ex plain the de vel op ment of hu man
in tel lect, and stat ed that his the o ry could be deemed in valid for that very rea son:

. . . as man dif fers so great ly in his men tal pow er from all oth er an i mals, there must be some er ror in this
con clu sion [i.e., that man de scended from some low er form]. 120

That be ing so, what was the ex pla na tion for this ma jor de vel op ment that ev o lu tion could not ac -

count for? Wallace’s an swer was this: It was done by Allah. According to him, hu man grace was an
earth ly ex pres sion of “Di vine grace.” 121
At this point, there was a part ing of the ways be tween Wallace and Darwin, who in sist ed that nat -
u ral se lec tion was the pro pul sive force of ev o lu tion and that even the most mys te ri ous men tal char ac -

ter is tics de vel oped with out be ing cre at ed by a Sublime Being. Darwin re gard ed Wallace’s claims as a
grave threat to his own the o ry, and said this about nat u ral se lec tion in a let ter he wrote to Wallace in
1869: “I hope that you have not mur dered too com plete ly your own and my child.” 122 This con clu sion
Wallace reached was of course in com pat i ble with the the o ry of ev o lu tion, launched in or der to be able

to de ny the ex is tence of Allah and which drew its strength from ma te ri al ism. For that rea son, Wallace’s
ideas were swift ly swept un der the car pet. Materialist cir cles need ed to bring to the fore the idea that
ev ery thing came in to be ing through un con scious proc ess es, and Darwin led the way in that re gard.

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