THE GREAT MANUSCRIPT 



script itself, it is repeated throughout the 

 work, in cipher, which is understood by all 

 who know how to read between the lines. 

 This cipher, however, is much clearer in 

 some editions than in others, for it must be 

 confessed that there are men and women 

 who have "well-nigh wormed all trace of 

 God's finger out of themselves." 



The preface of this manuscript, exten- 

 sively reviewed as The Law of Evolution, 

 was written large in the history of cruder 

 animal life, reaching back through dismal 

 seons to the ooze and slime beds of early 

 creation. 



Each of the volumes mentioned is divided 

 into three closely interrelated parts. The 

 first, known as body, was for ages the only 

 one which could be read at all, and even in 

 such reading, all its marginal references were 

 overlooked by everybody save a few seers 

 and poets. But it is with the vastly more 

 alluring second and third parts, known as 

 mind and heart, that this paper is chiefly 

 concerned. For despite the warning of 

 Scripture, that the hearts of kings are un- 



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