NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



that would content itself with 

 writing a biography of the acorn, 

 and never take into account the 

 oak that comes from the acorn 

 and for which the acorn exists! 

 The oak reveals the acorn ; with- 

 out the oak the acorn is not ex- 

 plicable. How can any one un- 

 derstand the evolution of man 

 and not consider the vastly greater 

 segment of his nature, which is 

 the non-material and spiritual? 

 The scientist believes in the inde- 

 structibility of matter. The step 

 is a short one to the belief in the 

 indestructibility of spirit. He be- 

 lieves in substance infinitely ex- 

 tended ; the step is not a long one 

 to belief in the personality that is 

 infinitely extended. He believes 

 that in all matter is a " thinking 

 substance." Is it harder to be- 

 lieve that over and in all things is 

 a thinking spirit? * The scientist 

 * "We adhere firmly to the pure, un- 



