higher and different forms ; all animals once lived in 

 the water, but some of them becoming stranded on 

 the land, put forth organs of locomotion and defense, 

 through their supreme resolve to live. Anaximander 

 also taught that man was only a highly developed an- 

 imal, and his source of life was the same as that of all 

 other animals ; man's present high degree of develop- 

 ment having gradually come about through growth 

 from very lowly forms. 



Anaxagoras, schoolmaster of Pericles, also made sim- 

 ilar statements, and then we find him boldly putting 

 forth the very startling idea that between the high- 

 est type of Greek and the lowest type of savage there 

 was a greater difference than between the savage and 

 the ape. He also taught that the earth was the univer- 

 sal mother of all living things, animal and vegetable, 

 and that the fecundation of the earth took place from 

 minute, unseen germs that floated in the air. 

 According to modern science Anaxagoras was very 

 close upon the trail of truth. But there were only a 

 very few who could follow him, and it took the com- 

 bined eloquence and tact of Pericles to save his splen- 

 did head in the place where nature put it, and Pericles 

 himself was compromised by his leaning toward 

 " Darwinism." 



Every man who speaks, expresses himself for others. 

 We succeed only as our thought is echoed back to us 

 by others who think the same. If you like what I say 

 it is only because it is already yours. Moreover, thought 

 is a collaboration, and is born of parents. If a teacher 



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