THE LONG ROAD 



into the farthest depths of siderial space; he has 

 only very feeble occult powers of communication 

 with his fellows, and yet he can talk around the 

 world and send his voice across mountains and 

 deserts; his hands are weak things beside a lion s 

 paw or an elephant s trunk, and yet he can move 

 mountains and stay rivers and set bounds to the 

 wildest seas. His dog can out-smell him and out 

 run him and out-bite him, and yet his dog looks up 

 to him as to a god. He has erring reason in place of 

 unerring instinct, and yet he has changed the face of 

 the planet. 



Without the specialization of the lower animals, 

 their wonderful adaptation to particular ends, 

 their tools, their weapons, their strength, their 

 speed, man yet makes them all his servants. His 

 brain is more than a match for all the special ad 

 vantages nature has given them. The one gift of 

 reason makes him supreme in the world. 



VI 



We have a stake in all the past life of the globe. 

 It is no doubt a scientific fact that your existence 

 and mine were involved in the first cell that ap 

 peared, that the first zoophyte furthered our for 

 tunes, that the first worm gave us a lift. Great good 

 luck came to us when the first pair of eyes were in 

 vented, probably by the trilobite back in Silurian 

 times; when the first ear appeared, probably in 

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