EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



determining the known portion of the curve are fully 

 understood. It is also in danger of being too subjective 

 as the interpolator himself is part of the data which 

 he utilizes for the extension. Yet, extension of the 

 graph might help us to provide some sort of answers 

 to questions which men have been asking through the 

 ages. 



Just what is the meaning of life? Does it have a 

 purpose? Where is the development of life leading? 

 Is life not perhaps just a sort of accident without any 

 real cosmic significance? What is the true nature of the 

 universe; that of time, space, mass and energy? Is the 

 universe itself purposeful? And finally, are scientific 

 answers to questions such as the ones stated possible 

 within the limitations of human comprehension? 



Which human being in whom at least a glimmering 

 of imaginative curiosity is still alive, can resist the 

 attempt to extend the graph? Let us then see, if by 

 doing so, any contribution can be made towards pro- 

 viding answers to the fundamental questions raised. 



On the basis of the pattern of the evolutionary devel- 

 opment of matter into living forms, it would seem 

 unreasonable to assume that the integration of multi- 

 cellular organisms to form a societal organism will be 

 the final step in the development of living matter. If 

 such a termination were to take place it would mark 

 the end of progressive evolution and constitute a 

 discontinuity of what seems to have the quality of a 



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