EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



tical with the entity of the universe. If this is true, 

 then it means that the evolution of living matter is 

 moving in the direction of a conscious universe. This 

 conclusion may seem utterly fantastic if considered in 

 the light of present human limitations in contrast to 

 the immensity of the cosmos. Still is it not equally fan- 

 tastic, yet true, that the matter that constitutes man has, 

 if considered as an entity, even now achieved some 

 knowledge of its own structure, as well as of the nature 

 of other matter. So perhaps the glimmering of con- 

 sciousness which man, a tiny portion of the total matter 

 of the universe, has already achieved, is just the dawn 

 of the great developments in evolution that are yet to 

 come. 



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