THE ADVENT OF MAN. 



subjected to. They being nature's safety valve in case 

 of emergency. When emergency arises, then they 

 come into play. If it never comes to pass that circum- 

 stances require their use, then they are no load to 

 carry. They develop to the circumstances. Not the 

 circumstances to the members. The same with man 

 in the early life he developed to the circumstances, not 

 circumstances conforming to his desires. Such members 

 as nature allowed man in reserve which were not 

 brought into play in early life were, as in all nature's 

 work, provisions against future changes which are a 

 part unavoidable in the fundamental laws of her work- 

 ing system. Nature having a law or laws moving to 

 one end. Every form of its work conforms to the 

 changes within the law or laws. Every manifestation 

 of nature in molding processes as in all other processes, 

 has been secured by not one means but many, for con- 

 tinuation throughout the changes which are bound 

 to come to pass. 



Man's thorough grilling in the beginning, having 

 to develop so slowly and measure all worldly matter, 

 was but the work of nature in adapting him to a future 

 wherein he had to continue to measure matter and' to 

 do so unerringly in order to maintain matter in con- 

 dition to the perpetuation of his kind. He came into 

 the world in the beginning, a scientist empowered with 

 all knowing qualities. He could measure all matter. 

 He had to do so in order to perpetuate his own life. 

 In perpetuating his own life he worked toward per- 

 petuation of the earth. 



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