NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



through the myriads of centuries 

 from the plant type-life; not one 

 of these cells in all the ages out 

 of line, not a break in the chain, no 

 chasm, no leap. Every twig, 

 every leaf in the wide-spreading 

 oak, has its thread unbroken 

 through the ages back to the prim- 

 ordial cell — back to the original 

 that came from above. 



But the outward evolution — 

 that of the physical — marvelous 

 beyond thought, is comparatively 

 insignificant. The chief evolution 

 has been and is within. The 

 scientist is unscientific who ignores 

 the greater evolution and builds his 

 explanatory system wholly on the 

 lesser — on the least. Psychology 

 is also a science. Has nature one 

 method for the development of the 

 physical part of man's being, and 

 another for the development of 

 the non-material and spiritual? 

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