EVOLUTION OF MAN 



of great mountain chains, in some parts of the north 

 over 20,000 feet in height. As this wrinkling of 

 the earth's crust has been caused by its contrac- 

 tion and doubling upwards in some places, thus 

 forming the mountains, other corresponding depres- 

 sions must occur in other places, involving a subsi- 

 dence of extensive portions of land beneath the 

 waters. Scientific investigation, however, has not 

 confirmed his theory. No corroboration thereof has 

 been found in deep-sea soundings that such a 

 plateau or continent in the region described had ever 

 existed. 



The structural evolution of the body of man must 

 have kept pace pari passu with such modifica- 

 tion of his brain as enabled it to receive and respond 

 to that higher form of energy that slowly raised its 

 owner from the original level of brute consciousness 

 and volition into that of the intelligence and will of 

 the human being, even though that being was but a 

 savage of the lowest type. Heretofore the prosperity 

 of the individual animal and the continuance of 

 its race depended mainly upon the perfection of its 

 bodily organs, the strength or swiftness of limb or 

 wing, and the general muscular force that enabled it 

 to capture its prey or defend itself against the attack 

 of others. The race then had been to the swift and 

 the battle to the strong. The new line of evolution 



