THE LONG ROAD 



the nervous system, ages and ages to develop the 

 centralized ganglia, the brain. First life was like 

 a rabble, a mob, without thought or head, then slowly 

 organization went on, as it were, from family to 

 clan, from clan to tribe, from tribe to nation, or 

 centralized government the brain of man all 

 parts duly subordinated and directed, millions 

 of cells organized and working on different functions 

 to one grand end, cooperation, fraternization, 

 division of labor, altruism, etc. 



The cell was the first invention; it is the unit of 

 life, a speck of protoplasm with a nucleus. To 

 educate this cell till it could combine with its fellows 

 and form the higher animals seems to have been the 

 aim of the creative energy. First the cell, then com 

 binations of cells, then combinations of combina 

 tions, then more and more complex combinations 

 till the body of man is reached, where endless con 

 fraternities of cells, all with different functions, 

 working to build and sustain different organs, 

 brain, heart, liver, muscles, nerves, yet all work 

 ing together for one grand end the body and 

 mind of man. In their last analysis, all made up of 

 the same cells their combinations and organiza 

 tion making the different forms. 



Evolution touches all forms but tarries with few. 



Many are called but few are chosen chosen to 



lead the man-impulse upward. Myriads of forms 



are left behind, like driftwood caught in the eddies 



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