TIME AND CHANGE 



upon it from without, but vitally evolved from 

 within and that man himself is one of its products 

 as literally as are the trees that stand rooted to the 

 soil. Revert to the time when life was not, when the 

 globe was a half-incandescent ball, or when it was a 

 seething, weltering waste of heated water, before 

 the land had yet emerged from the waves, and yet 

 you and I were there in the latent potencies of the 

 chemically and dynamically warring elements. We 

 were there, the same as the heat and flame are in the 

 coal and wood and as the explosive force of powder 

 is in the grains. The creative cosmic chemistry in 

 due time brought us forth, and started us on the long 

 road that led from the amoeba up to man. There 

 have been no days of creation. Creation has been a 

 continuous process, and the creator has been this 

 principle of evolution inherent in all matter. 



Man himself was born of this principle. His 

 genealogy finally runs back to the clod under his 

 feet. One has no trouble in accepting the old Bibli- 

 cal account of his origin from the dust of the earth 

 when one views that dust in the light of modem 



science. 



Man is undoubtedly of animal origin. He is em- 

 braced in the same zoological scheme as are all other 

 creatures, and did not start as man any more than 

 you and I started with our present stature, or than 

 the earth sprang from chaos as we now behold it. 



His complete physical evolution must have been 



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