08 Proceed u^ffs of fiiditnid Aeadeuii/ of Science. 



Just what is ciifdldcd witliiii that KcriuV Wlu^tlioi' it is the ,e,erm of a horse, 

 a (lot;;, a iu(iiil<oy. or a man. life makes no departure from the plan it finds 

 traced in tliat ,i;ei'ni. ex('(>pt in the way of development and improvement. 

 For instance, when the germ is that of a horse .has not the finished 

 product heen at all times inimistakably a horse V Is not the Eohippus as ' 

 certainly a horse as is the thoroughbred of today. True, some of the toes of 

 the Eohippus. with their several toenails, have disappeared under the one 

 liig toi'uail W(> call a hoof, hut do not the vestiges of the submerged toes 

 remain to tell their story V ' 



I have watclied witli interest tlie zeal with which the search has been 

 pro.«ecuted for the missing liidv tb;it it is said will confirm our Simian 

 ancesti'v. and liaxc woiidt'red why, if this is true, nature neglected to 

 l»r(>s(M\(' soiuc xcsligc of our lost caudal orn.nnient, some bint of the miss- 

 ing vertebr;il a1 taclimeiil . I h;ivc wondci-cd if it v.crc in)t possible that 

 instead of ;ill forms of life having (lc\ eloped from a single germ, that nature 

 had not exhausted itself in pr(tdu(iiig one type of germ, but instead had been 

 capable of producing and bad iiroduced innumerable germs, so that each 

 separate type of oi-ganic life may liav(> bad its start in its own ]):irticular 

 germ. I know it often li.-ippciis that men. in delving into their genealogy, 

 encounter disagreeable sr.i prises. It may be true that we are only improved 

 monkeys (with a))ologies to s.iue nmid^exs for some men). But if nature 

 did not exhaust itself when it pidiluced the inilbii germ, m;iy it not be after 

 all that the germ from which we aic (iescended was from its beginning a 

 germ of humanity V 



Evolution must lie accepted, but not neces^ai'ily the meic guesses of the 

 evolutionist. As long as it is a nu-re nuitter of guessing. I claim the right to 

 guess for myself. It takes more than the Xeandertlial man. or the so-called 

 Ape Man of .Java, to make valid the guess of our Simian ancestry. The 

 beginning of mankind on earth doubt'.ess goe ■ back to an initial germ, but 

 it is my guess that the pl;in tr.-iced in that Initial germ by tiie master 

 arcbilect, and which was followed by the master builder, life, was always 

 man, Man. as man, li.-is develoiied and is developing, but I decline to 

 acknowledge kinship with either the migbt.x' Saurian, the e(|ui\dcal Simian, 

 or the lowly i-ai'thworm. 



And now I venture one otliei- gross: Protoplasm is not life, nor is it 

 any part of lite. It is simply the c(niductor (d" life. It is the vehicle through 

 which life acts and with which it works. 



All this of course deals only with the visible, i)hysical world, and the 

 visible, ])hysical universe, -tlu' world ;md the universe (d" i)hantasmagoria. 

 of visible, changing, but tninsient forms. — forms which are simply the 

 effects of causes beyond our ken. It is another story that deals with that 

 other world, where consciousnes ; dwells, that real but inxisible world of 

 causes and (d' realities. 



