1 62 Outlook to Nature 



lie behind, not between. The genealogy is the 

 missing link ; and in many cases it is traceable. 

 There are still many unfortunate persons who 

 think that evolutionists teach that man came 

 directly from the monkey. It is not strange 

 that we sometimes think so. The truth is, no 

 doubt, that the two came off a common stem in 

 ages past, and that they now represent the tips 

 of the branches of a letter Y; but I like to 

 think that the human branch is a little longer 

 than the monkey branch. 



Two underlying considerations. 



There are two general reasons for believing 

 that there must be evolution : The fact that 

 there must be struggle for existence because 

 the earth is not big enough to contain all the 

 possible offspring of the plants and animals 

 living upon it at any given time ; and the fact 

 that there have been mighty physical changes 

 in the earth, changes which, in many cases, are 

 not yet completed. Consequently, organisms 

 must either have changed to meet the new 

 conditions, or have perished. It is impossible 



