CHAPTER VII 



Human Destiny and Evolution 



One of the tasks which the writer hopes this book 

 will accomplish is to provide a unified view of the 

 process of evolution of matter up to the present time. 

 In order to do so, the relation between theoretical 

 thermodynamic considerations on one hand and bio- 

 logical events as they have actually taken place on the 

 other, has been emphasized at the risk of being repe- 

 titious. This repetition may have led the reader to 

 consider much material as obvious and some of it may 

 have escaped proper consideration. In any event, it 

 might be well to summarize some of the data that has 

 been presented, in order to evaluate it more clearly 

 and to see whether any further conclusions can be 

 drawn from it. 



On the basis of this data it appears that the long 

 term development of a small portion of matter has 

 over a great period of time proceeded in a direction 

 contrary to the one indicated by the Second Law of 



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