THE GOSPEL OF NATURE 



red corpuscles in the arteries of the infinite. If man 

 has not yet appeared on the other planets, he will in 

 time appear, and when he has disappeared from this 

 globe, he will still continue elsewhere. 



I do not say that he is the end and aim of crea 

 tion; it would be logical, I think, to expect a still 

 higher form. Man has been man but a little while 

 comparatively, less than one hour of the twenty- 

 four of the vast geologic day; a few hours more and 

 he will be gone; less than another geologic day like 

 the past, and no doubt all life from the earth will be 

 gone. What then? The game will be played over 

 and over again in other worlds, without approach 

 ing any nearer the final end than we are now. There 

 is no final end, as there was no absolute beginning, 

 and can be none with the infinite. , 



THE END 



