182 Summary 



in a growing mastery of their environment, and with 

 an increasing explicitness of mind. 



The process of evolution from invisible animalcules 

 has a magnificence that cannot be exaggerated. It 

 has been a process in which the time required has 

 been, as it were, of no consideration, in which for 

 many millions of years there has been neither rest 

 nor haste, in which broad foundations have been laid 

 so that a splendid superstructure has been secure, in 

 which, in spite of the disappearance of many master- 

 pieces, there has been a conservation of great gains. 

 It has had its outcome in personalities who have dis- 

 cerned its magnificent sweep, who are seeking to 

 understand its factors, who are learning some of its 

 lessons, who cannot cease trying to interpret it. It 

 looks as if Nature were Nature for a purpose, and as 

 we cannot predicate purpose in a vast system, we must 

 reverently ascribe it to a Creator. We plead that the 

 evolutionist picture is in harmony with the Vision of 

 God. 



Summary. 



1. Sometime, somewhere, somehow there was an 

 emergence of simple living creatures upon the earth. 

 Perhaps the problem is beyond scientific solution; 

 perhaps the best answer is "Ignoramus"; perhaps 

 germs of life came to the earth from elsewhere, safely 

 ensconced in the crevices of a meteorite ; perhaps the 

 living arose by natural synthesis from the non-living 

 — from a colloidal carbonaceous slime activated by 

 ferments. The last answer is in line with evolutionist 



