SCIENCE 



thrusts and the crumpling of the earth's crust are 

 local; but the periods of continental subsidence and 

 declination seem to have been universal. When any 

 part of Europe went under the ocean, some part of 

 North America went under, and some part of Asia 

 and Africa and South America. 



We are prone to lose sight of the fact that large 

 bodies are subject to the same law as small, that 

 size does not count in nature. The earth is as much 

 a unit, as much an organic whole, as an apple on a 

 tree. In the development of life upon the earth the 

 same thing holds true; no part got much ahead or 

 lagged much behind the others, the different forms 

 appeared in the same ages in the different countries. 



Whether this came about through migration, or 

 as the result of parallel lines of development, who 

 knows? Was life at first local, and then universal 

 by spreading? Was the horse, the camel, the ele- 

 phant, the bird, at first local? Was man? Did he 

 emerge in more than one country and age? If man, 

 or any other species of animal, had but one single 

 line of descent, how could that line have escaped 

 being broken, throughout the appalling vicissitudes 

 of geologic time? If each form of life had its centre 

 or point of emergence, what was doing at other 

 centres or points on the globe at the same time? 

 If the Creative Energy worked through all matter 

 why would it not focus itself at many points? Why 

 only at one point? 



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