NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



That was a provincial notion 

 about the universe which was held 

 before Copernicus' s time — the be- 

 lief that the sun, planets, stars, 

 all revolved around the earth. 

 Copernicus was called the de- 

 stroyer of faith and bitterly de- 

 nounced. His idea made the earth 

 but a speck, and the Milky Way 

 — billions of miles long — the mere 

 yard-stick of the universe. All 

 this has immensely enlarged faith 

 — did not destroy it. Darwin, 

 too, was called the destroyer of 

 faith; but now we begin to see 

 that evolution, in giving man 

 countless eons of growth, instead 

 of keeping him a creature of yes- 

 terday, bounded by the cradle and 

 grave, has immensely enlarged 

 faith, and beyond thought has 

 added to the dignity of man. 



The new birth of the natural 

 man into the kingdom of the spiri- 

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