58 The Universe and Life 



of correlation with the outer world that are far be- 

 yond the degrees reached by others. For brevity, we 

 will call such fuller, more diversified, more adequate 

 life higher. 



These developmental changes in many different 

 directions are still in progress. Life is transforming 

 now as it has transformed in the past. This is no 

 longer a theory ; the processes of transformation are 

 now under observation in hundreds of laboratories of 

 genetics. And life is bound to continue this trans- 

 formation in the future. The universe is not finished, 

 it is still in the making; and what it will produce in 

 the future, we cannot predict. As it was not possible 

 from what existed in the past to foretell the present 

 situation of life, so from the present situation it is 

 not possible to know what will come in the future. It 

 is not possible to set limits to the further progress of 

 life. If stock had been taken in some past geological 

 age, much that is most characteristic of life would 

 have been omitted ; particularly, all that is now high- 

 est would have been left out of the reckoning. Stock- 

 taking at the present time is bound in the same way 

 to omit much that will be realized in the future. The 

 potentialities of the universe for the production of 

 diverse and higher types of life have not been 

 exhausted. 



There is possibility of progress toward fuller, more 

 diversified life in any of the different branches of the 

 tree, and in any of the multifarious directions in 

 which life has successfully moved. In a book published 

 some years ago entitled This Simian World, Clarence 



