TIME AND CHANGE 



him, or is shown him to-day, and yet he has come 

 to his estate. He has never been coddled; fire, water, 

 frost, gravity, hunger, death, have made and still 

 make no exceptions in his favor. He is on a level 

 with all other animals in this respect. He has his life 

 and well-being on the same terms as do the fowls of 

 the air and the beasts of the fields. 



Archbishop Whately thought that primitive man 

 could never have raised himself to a higher con- 

 dition without external aid — some "elementary 

 instruction to enable his faculties to begin their 

 work." He must have had a boost. Well, the boost 

 was forthcoming, but it was not from without, but 

 from within, through this principle of development, 

 this upward striving that was innate from the first 

 in certain forms of life and of which Whately had 

 no conception. It was the conception of his time 

 that creation was like a watch made and wound up 

 by some power external to itself. 



The physical evolution of man, as I have said, 

 is no doubt complete. He will never have wings, or 

 more legs, or longer arms, or a bigger brain. The 

 wings and the extra legs and the keener sense he has 

 left behind him. His development henceforth must 

 be in the mental and spiritual. He is bound to have 

 more and more dominion over Nature, and see more 

 and more clearly his own relation to her. He will 

 in time completely subdue and possess the earth. 

 Yes, and probably exhaust her.^ But he will see in 



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