TIME AND CHANGE 



the book of genesis of the rocky scripture of the 

 globe — a book torn and mutilated, that has been 

 through fire and flood and earthquake shock, that 

 has been in the sea and on the heights, and that only 

 the palaeontologist can rea^ or decipher correctly, 

 but which is a veritable bible of the succession of life 

 on the earth. The events of the days of creation are 

 recorded here, but they are days of such length that 

 they are to be reckoned »)nly in millions of years. 



The evolution of the horse, according to the best 

 and latest research, from the eohippus of Eocene 

 times — a small mammal no larger than the fox — 

 to the proud and fleet creature that we prize to-day, 

 occupied four or five millions of years. Think of that 

 first known progenitor of the horse as never dying, 

 but living on through the geological ages and being 

 slowly, oh, so slowly, modified by its environment, 

 changing its teeth, its hoofs, enlarging its body, 

 lengthening its limbs, and so on, till it becomes the 

 horse we know to-day. 



In accepting the theory of the animal origin of 

 man we have got to follow man back, not only till 

 we find him a naked savage like the Fuegians as 

 Darwin describes them, — naked, bedaubed with 

 paint, with matted hair and looks wild and distrust- 

 ful, — but we cannot stop there, we must follow him 

 back till he becomes a troglodyte, a cave-dweller, 

 contending with the cave bear, the cave lion, and 

 the hyena for the possession of this rude shelter; 



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