The Destiny of Man. 77 



complex movements that make up what 

 we can see of life. And as when God re- 

 vealed himself to his ancient prophet He 

 came not in the earthquake or the tem- 

 pest but in a voice that was still and small, 

 so that divine spark the Soul, as it takes 

 up its brief abode in this realm of fleeting 

 phenomena, chooses not the central sun 

 where elemental forces forever blaze and 

 clash, but selects an outlying terrestrial 

 nook where seeds may germinate in si- 

 lence, and where through slow fruition the 

 mysterious forms of organic life may come 

 to take shape and thrive. He who thus 

 looks a little deeper into the secrets of na- 

 ture than his forefathers of the sixteenth 

 century may well smile at the quaint con- 

 ceit that man cannot be the object of God's 

 care unless he occupies an immovable posi- 

 tion in the centre of the stellar universe. 



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