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CHAPTER I. \5>; ^" ' 



Evolution in General. 



p VOLUTION Is the story of life from the first living cell / 



to the present time. It is Nature's story of the history 

 of life with its successive changes. It is a logical story of 

 the method of creation based on scientific facts. Its funda- 

 mental principles have been weighed in the balance of rea- 

 son by many thousands of trained and capable investigators 

 in every branch of Science. It shows the developing of 

 Nature's negatives so that we can see the unfolding of the 

 real pictures of life's growth. The purpose of this growth 

 is to reach a higher plane where the struggle for existence 

 may be more easily overcome. It lifts the veil of mystery 

 from the mythical suppositions of life's processes and pre- 

 sents them as a harmonious working order each directed 

 to the creative whole. It is a history of the sum total of 

 many thousands of connecting facts, all In complete har- 

 mony, that cannot be reasonably explained in any other way. 

 All great discoveries add to the universal knowledge 

 and understanding of the mysteries of Nature. The prin- 

 ciples back of these discoveries have always been the same. 

 The principles of steam, electricity, the telephone, radio, 

 television and all other great discoveries were of little value 

 until they were applied to the uses of man. It is a knowl- 

 edge and application of these principles that make them 

 useful. Throughout the ages, the principles of Evolution 



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