GREAT QUESTIONS IN LITTLE 



Hence the truth at the bottom of the old myth, 

 that it was by the fall of man came all our diseases. 

 The birth of reason was the fall of man, and only 

 then did error and sin become possible; only when 

 man crosses Nature and seeks to rule her, does 

 disease, as we know it, appear, because only then 

 does error appear. The animals do not err; they 

 go along with Nature; it is a survival of the fittest; 

 but give an animal a tool or a weapon, and the 

 naturally weak may survive over the naturally 

 strong. If we could only know all the steps of man's 

 progress from his nearest animal ancestor ! 



The third step in man's progress was taken when 

 he tamed and used other animals. His fourth great 

 step was when he began to cultivate the soil, or to 

 plant and reap. At first he was, of course, a hunter 

 and fisherman. He must have evolved some sort 

 of language soon after his emergence from the 

 lower animal state. Writing, of course, came much 

 later. 



The greatest step of all will be when man learns 

 to stamp out disease through his more complete 

 knowledge of Nature. 



V. ASTRONOMIC GRANDEUR 



We humanize the nature we see around as in field 

 and river and wood; we infuse ourselves into it; we 

 fill the lap of earth with treasures not her own; but 

 when we look up to the heavens, when we behold 



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