The Destiny of Man. 



there are indications of a time when sys- 

 tems of dead planets shall fall in upon 

 their central ember that was once a sun, 

 and the whole lifeless mass, thus regaining 

 heat, shall expand into a nebulous cloud 

 like that with which we started, that the 

 work of condensation and evolution may 

 begin over again. These Titanic events 

 must doubtless seem to our limited vision 

 like an endless and aimless series of 

 cosmical changes. They disclose no signs 

 of purpose, or even of dramatic ten- 

 dency ; 18 they seem like the weary work 

 of Sisyphos. But on the face of our own 

 planet, where alone we are able to survey 

 the process of evolution in its higher and 

 more complex details, we do find distinct 

 indications of a dramatic tendency, though 

 doubtless not of purpose in the limited 

 human sense. The Darwinian theory, 

 properly understood, replaces as much 

 teleology 19 as it destroys. From the first 

 dawning of life we see all things work- 

 ing together toward one mighty goal, the 

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