Bernard Shaw defended the intellect and spoke of “the mind’s eye” of the future:

” Just as Life, after ages of struggle, evolved that wonderful bodily organ the eye… so it is evolving today a mind’s eye that shall see, not the physical world, but the purpose of life, and thereby enable the individual to work for that purpose instead of thwarting and baffling it by setting up shortsighted personal aims as at present”

Don Juan in Hell 1907