THE TRIUMPH OF LITE 



an impulse is released. This higher animal life 

 divides itself into a series of great classes. 



In all of these classes there are representatives 

 that possesses the power of illumination just as 

 in the heavens among the white and yellow and 

 red fixed stars there glow harmoniously down 

 to us representatives of different courses and de- 

 grees of development. Like a violet dome the 

 medusa floats along, an embodiment of the low 

 flower like order of plant animals; blue flashes 

 burst from the translucent cray fish of the ar- 

 ticulata ; like a glowing white cannon ball a col- 

 ony of the tunicates closely related to the verte- 

 brates rolls into the midst, tiny infusoria like 

 rotary animalcules* represent the realm of the 

 multiform deep sea worms; green vari-colored 

 cuttle fish of the order mollusca, tiny transpar- 

 ent larvae of sea urchins and star fish which in 

 a higher stage become radially flower-like repre- 

 sentatives of the echinodermata. 



But suddenly the giant of the earth appears 

 among them. Our first picture of life in the 

 mystery of this glimmering night Includes alike 

 the lowest of life and the highest, the morning 

 mist and the zenith sun; — out from the bac- 

 teria like primordial forms steps man. He it is, 

 that like a mysterious giant shadow suddenly 

 cuts through the sparkling milky way of life, a 

 shadow so heavenward towering that he seems 



*The rotifer.— Trans. 



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