PREFACE 



IN this little book my object is not to preach, 

 but to prove on logical and scientific grounds, 

 and in language which all can understand, that 

 man has inherited the spirit of God and will re- 

 turn to God. 



In my earliest childhood I was entrusted, dur- 

 ing the absence of my parents in India, to the 

 care of a Scotch clergyman of the severest school. 

 His sermons and his moral exhortations were, so 

 far as my memory serves, all of the gloomiest 

 and most terrifying kind. The end of the world 

 and the commencement of unending torment were 

 always in my mind at the age of five as prob- 

 able occurrences of every day. 



My very earliest recollection of nature and 

 wild life is bound up with this haunting dread. I 

 was in the garden one day when a wild duck flew 

 by. I had never seen one before; and, with its 

 neck stretched out in front and no tail to speak 

 of behind, I mistook one end of the bird for the 

 other, and thought it was flying tail-first. 



I vividly experience even now the hot-cold rush 



