Sentence:  I have seen the question asked "why should mind have a body?" the answer may well run "to mediate between it and other mind". It might be objected that such a view is undiluted <WSD>'anthropism</WSD>.' To that we might reply, <WSD>anthropism</WSD> seems the present aim of the planet though presumably not its enduring aim. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The belief that human beings have a spiritual nature beyond the physical body characterized by in-dwelling Divinity.