CHAPTER VIII 



Epilogue 



There are certain further conclusions that may be 

 drawn from the material which has been presented. 

 In contrast to the matters discussed up to this point, 

 which the writer hopes have been well established, the 

 ideas that will now be presented are entirely specula- 

 tive in their nature and should be considered apart 

 from the rest of the book. One may, as a matter of fact, 

 thoroughly disagree with these final ideas and yet be 

 able to accept the presentation up to this point as 

 fundamentally sound. 



The conclusions that have been arrived at so far, 

 concerned the pattern of past evolution as well as some 

 of the consequences this pattern is likely to produce in 

 the near future. The speculations that will now be con- 

 sidered are arrived at by extending the known portion 

 of the graph of evolution over an exceedingly long pe- 

 riod of time. Clearly such an extrapolation is of a low 

 order of validity, especially as not all of the factors 



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