TIME AND CHANGE 



its branches? What determined one branch to 

 eventuate in man, another in the dog, the horse, 

 the bird, or the reptile? 



From the finite or human point of view we feel 

 compelled to say some vaster being or intelligence 

 must have had the thought of all these things from 

 the beginning or before the beginning. 



It is quite impossible for me to believe that for- 

 tuitous variation — variation all around the circle — 

 could have resulted in the evolution of man. There 

 must have been a predetermined tendency to varia- 

 tion in certain directions. To introduce chance into 

 the world is to introduce chaos. No more would the 

 waters of the interiors of the continents find their 

 way to the sea, were there not a slant in that direc- 

 tion, than could haphazard variation, though checked 

 and controlled by natural selection, result in the 

 production of the race of man. This view may be 

 only the outcome of our inevitable anthropomor- 

 phism which we cannot escape from, no matter how 

 deep we dive or high we soar. 



