A Story Outline of Evolution 



haps the most exhaustive study of serpent worship that has 

 been printed. Moses, In the name of God, forbade the 

 Israelites from Inquiring about the daemons, Ob and Ideone, 

 serpent gods, which shows that Ophiolatry had gained a foot- 

 hold on the primitive mind before the Bible was written. 



When Nature takes a forward step and develops a new 

 and higher form of life, this new form Is not fully developed 

 but It must start at the beginning and crawl before It walks. 

 It Is surrounded by many enemies and In order to survive, it 

 must outclimb, outrun or outwit these enemies. Some of the 

 reptiles had begun to develop and hatch their eggs within 

 their bodies. Nature had been at work In many ways — adding 

 some Improvement here and casting off the useless In other 

 places. Preparations had been made for another order whose 

 advance guards had begun to appear. The reptiles had gone 

 as far as they could go and many of them were being cast 

 into the discard because of changing conditions. Up to this 

 time, there was little of parental care or altruism in the 

 world. 



Nature always leaves sufficient vestigial organs In her 

 creatures to show us how Evolution works In building from 

 a lower to a higher order. We have seen that the reptiles 

 had four-chambered hearts but these were incomplete. Even 

 with the four Incomplete chambers, the reptiles had no power 

 of controlling the temperature of their blood. Like all cold- 

 blooded animals, they had no power of adaptation along 

 this line. But sometime toward the end of their 30,000,000 

 year reign, some reptile developed a true heart with two 

 auricles and two ventricles capable of separating the pure 

 and revitalized blood from the impure. They developed 



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