THE PHANTOMS BEHIND US 



bodies are not less divine, but all things are more 

 divine. We have to gird up our loins and try to 

 summon strength to see this tremendous universe 

 as it is, alive and divine to the last particle and em- 

 bosomed in the Infinite. 



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Evolution is not the final explanation of the uni- 

 verse, but it is probably the largest generalization 

 of the modern mind. Science has to start some- 

 where, and it starts with the universe as it finds it 

 and seeks to trace secondary or proximate causes; 

 the evolutionist seeks to trace the footsteps of cre- 

 ative energy in the world of animal life. How did 

 God make man.^ Out of the dust of the earth, says 

 the Bible of our fathers. The evolutionist teaches 

 essentially the same thing, only he does not abridge 

 the process as the catechism has abridged it for us; 

 he would fain unfold the whole long road that man 

 has traveled from the first protozoic cell to the vast 

 communities of cells that now make up his physical 

 life. He would show how man has risen on stepping- 

 stones of his dead self. These stepping-stones have 

 been the animal forms below him. In them and 

 through them something, some impulse, some force, 

 has mounted and mounted through all the enormous 

 lapse of geologic time. In imagination we see the 

 dim, shadowy man, restless and struggling in a vast 

 number of earlier forms. He has struggled up- 



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