MAN IN THE LIGHT OF 

 EVOLUTION 



CHAPTER I 



DARWINISM 



I ESS than fifty years ago Mr. Darwin pub- 

 lished the " Origin of Species." But 

 the Idea of evolution was well known 

 by Greek and Hindu philosophers who lived 

 more than two thousand years before. Aris- 

 tophanes, apparently quoting from some far 

 older writer, says : " Chaos was and night, and 

 Erebus black and wide Tartarus. No earth 

 nor air nor sky was yet, when in the bosom of 

 vast Erebus (chaotic darkness) winged night 

 brought forth first of all the egg from which in 

 after-revolving periods sprang Love, the much 

 desired, glittering with golden wings. And 

 Love again, in union with Chaos, produced the 

 breed of the human race.'' 



Here the process by which higher forms are 



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