THE BREATH OF LIFE 



own, no prudence, no love, no mercy, no justice, no 

 economy, but his own, no god but such a one as fits 

 his conception. 



In view of all these things, how man got here is a 

 problem. Why the slender thread of his line of de- 

 scent was not broken in the warrings and upheavals 

 of the terrible geologic ages, what power or agent 

 took a hand in furthering his development, is be- 

 yond the reach of our biologic science. 



Man's is the only intelligence, as we understand 

 the word, in the universe, and his intelligence de- 

 mands something akin to intelligence in the nature 

 from which he sprang. 



