THE LONG ROAD 



the nervous system, ages and ages to develop the 

 centralized gangHa, the brain. First life was Hke 

 a rabble, a mob, without thought or head, then slowly 

 organization went on, as it were, from family to 

 clan, from clan to tribe, from tribe to nation, or 

 centralized government — the brain of man — all 

 parts duly subordinated and directed, — millions 

 of cells organized and working on different functions 

 to one grand end, — cooperation, fraternization, 

 division of labor, altruism, etc. 



The cell was the first invention; it is the unit of 

 life, — a speck of protoplasm with a nucleus. To 

 educate this cell till it could combine with its fellows 

 and form the higher animals seems to have been the 

 aim of the creative energy. First the cell, then com- 

 binations of cells, then combinations of combina- 

 tions, then more and more complex combinations 

 till the body of man is reached, where endless con- 

 fraternities of cells, all with different functions, 

 working to build and sustain different organs, — 

 brain, heart, liver, muscles, nerves, — yet all work- 

 ing together for one grand end — the body and 

 mind of man. In their last analysis, all made up of 

 the same cells — their combinations and organiza- 

 tion making the different forms. 



Evolution touches all forms but tarries with few. 

 Many are called but few are chosen — chosen to 

 lead the man-impulse upward. Myriads of forms 

 are left behind, like driftwood caught in the eddies 



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