NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



not a scintilla of proof that an 

 animal life has ever been de- 

 veloped from a plant. The phys- 

 ical basis of animal life was 

 ripened through the plant and 

 mineral world, and when the basis 

 was ready, animal life came. 

 , This life also came from above, 

 it did not come from below. It 

 came with the new birth of an 

 animal type-life into the heredi- 

 tary chain of evolution ; and the 

 animal type-life was imparted to 

 and incarnated in the prepared 

 physical basis, bridging in itself 

 the chasm between the two king- 

 doms. This type-life also had the 

 power to reorganize after its na- 

 ture, and from it all animal life 

 was developed. In some, as in 

 the lowest protozoa, it was arrested 

 at a single cell ; in others, it pro- 

 gressed to two, three, a score, 

 myriads of cells ; in some it pro- 

 gressed in lateral ways, ending 

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