3 o GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



Science, therefore, finds no time, or place, or thing 

 set apart and alone sanctified by one instantaneous, all- 

 embracing creative act. Cosmic evolution and organic 

 evolution, the growth of suns and stars, of earth, and 

 plant, and man, are continuous parts of one process. 

 The more formal chemistry of earth and sea and air; 

 the flowing chemistry of protoplasmic cell and organ; 

 the moulding discipline of associated nerve and muscle, 

 eye and hand ; the alchemy of associated lives in nature's 

 household, are but different phases of one continuous, 

 all-pervading process of creation. 



Nebulae stiffen into stars and suns give birth to 

 drooling planets, larva smeared. Throbbing tides of 

 sea and air, the heart beats of a planet, drive the nu- 

 trient ocean to the mountain skeleton and through the 

 capillaries of earth, clothing her ribs in clay and spread- 

 ing her first gardens of ooze. Earth labors in her 

 kitchen and with equal skill in synthesis brings forth 

 atoms tied in stable squads and marching regiments; 

 crystals, straight-edged and steadfast; proteids and al- 

 bumens, with rounded forms and yielding sides; danc- 

 ing specks and wriggling threads, prophets of the life 

 to come; sprawling, self-constructing, self-consuming 

 protoplasm, free to rove, or wrapped in rigid walls, 

 or bound in glowing brotherhoods of cells together; 

 polyp and snail; worm and crab; fish and frog; bird 

 and ape, and at last naked, hand-free, high-headed man, 

 armored and armed with conscience and with vision. 

 Scrutinize as best she may, science finds no seam in this 

 universal fabric; no patchwork of dead and alive, hon- 

 ored or dishonored, in creation; no barriers between 

 what was, and is, and shall be. 



