Suppose the monster to be of incalculable size and of a strength quite abnormal--a veritable incarnation of animal strength.
Suppose this animal is allowed to remain in one place, thus being removed from accidents of interrupted development; might not, would not this creature, in process of time--ages, if necessary--have that rudimentary intelligence developed?
There is no impossibility in this; it is only the natural process of evolution.

In the beginning, the instincts of animals are confined to alimentation, self-protection, and the multiplication of their species.

As time goes on and the needs of life become more complex, power follows need.

We have been long accustomed to consider growth as applied almost exclusively to size in its various aspects.

But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.