THE LONG ROAD 



into the farthest depths of siderial space; he has 

 only very feeble occult powers of communication 

 with his fellows, and yet he can talk around the 

 world and send his voice across mountains and 

 deserts; his hands are weak things beside a lion's 

 paw or an elephant's trunk, and yet he can move 

 mountains and stay rivers and set bounds to the 

 wildest seas. His dog can out-smell him and out- 

 run him and out-bite him, and yet his dog looks up 

 to him as to a god. He has erring reason in place of 

 unerring instinct, and yet he has changed the face of 

 the planet. 



Without the specialization of the lower animals, 

 — their wonderful adaptation to particular ends, — 

 their tools, their weapons, their strength, their 

 speed, man yet makes them all his servants. His 

 brain is more than a match for all the special ad- 

 vantages nature has given them. The one gift of 

 reason makes him supreme in the world. 



VI 



We have a stake in all the past life of the globe. 

 It is no doubt a scientific fact that your existence 

 and mine were involved in the first cell that ap- 

 peared, that the first zoophyte furthered our for- 

 tunes, that the first worm gave us a lift. Great good 

 luck came to us when the first pair of eyes were in- 

 vented, probably by the trilobite back in Silurian 

 times; when the first ear appeared, probably in 



