NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



ible that, with the mingling of the 

 parental cells, the individuality 

 exactly fitted should be reborn in 

 the line of heredity, receiving the 

 parental stamp, being attracted by 

 the law which answers to that law 

 which guides the atom unerringly 

 to its place in the crystal — that 

 same law wonderfully exalted? 

 Whatever and wherever character 

 is, it must be obedient to the law 

 that draws it, for the law of at- 

 traction is even more irresistible 

 in the inner world than is the law 

 of gravitation in the outer world. 

 Every man as he comes to his 

 birth comes to his own place ; in 

 a profound sense he chooses his 

 parents and his surroundings. 

 As he was, he is, plus his birth- 

 gain and his growth through con- 

 sent and volition; his past leads 

 him. 



And in this last transition each 

 man is conscious that his individ- 

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