INTRODUCTORY. 



tends to prove that the best in man is always the most 

 likely to be the cause of his being persecuted by his 

 fellow man. Ignorance always being jealous of know- 

 ledge. In consequence, ignorance being more preva- 

 lent, crushes knowledge whenever it raises its head 

 above the debris. All the while, man has worked his 

 own destruction by crushing the best of his kind. He 

 seems forgetful in his injustice to the fellow men of the 

 fact that injustice to one individual, when weighed in 

 the scale of law of precedent, carries injustice to his 

 own door. He does not know that each injustice brings 

 doom nearer to himself and his brother. 



The work deals with things earthly first, and 

 weighs all matter and movement in the scale of passing 

 action, as observed in the simplest daily observations. 

 In other words, the work builds the foundation on what 

 we see in nature instead of groping into the shadows, for 

 precedent, built on floating shadows. The author begs 

 that the reader will question every line of the work, 

 and weigh it in the scale of his own observations, and 

 add to same every truly scientific fact discovered by 

 man by same means of study of passing action. 



The work picks man up in the gases in space, and 

 traces his development by true law down to the dawn 

 of history, giving cause, reason and mode of change 

 throughout. Same with many animals in a cursory 

 way; in fact, the general process applicable to all ani- 

 mal life. The work also deals with man to infinity 

 when weighed as to futurity; traces his course beyond 

 the range of the average intellect into the future. Yet 



