NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



causes some roots to build out 

 toward a vein of water; others 

 toward a skeleton many feet away 

 and along the bones of that skele- 

 ton — hungering and thirsting for 

 minerals, water, light, heat. 

 Hungering and thirsting — asking, 

 knocking — the plant receives. 

 Seek and ye shall find ; strive and 

 it shall be yours. This is the 

 law in the plant life, the law in 

 the animal life, in the life of the 

 natural man, in the life of the 

 spiritual man. 



After ages of need in the ani- 

 mal kingdom and tireless struggle, 

 guided by an intelligence im- 

 planted in the cells, at last the 

 eye was built, so the ear, and so 

 the other senses, that the animal 

 might have its desires and feed 

 on the surrounding waves of light, 

 waves of sound, and have the 

 advantage of odor, of taste, and 

 touch. Thus : the personality had 

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