38 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



notice no changes. The principles of logic, or of mathe- 

 matics, never change. The demonstrations of arithmetic, 

 of geometry, such as the right angled triangle, are 

 the same now as they have always been. The golden 

 rule never grows old, but is new, and bright, as it was 

 first uttered by man. So with the cell, the basis of life, 

 and the atom, or ion, or explosion, the basis of matter. 

 There is no change to these. Unity, continuity, con- 

 densation, conservation, never change by duration, and 

 hence the usual marks by which we note the flow of 

 time, in mere forms, do not apply to these. So that time, 

 as a reality, is a mere conception of the human brain. 

 It is merely a name we apply to other realities. When 

 the attention is withdrawn from the ordinary succession 

 of the movements of the sun across the sky; that is, the 

 artificial division of time, and concentrated on an object 

 remote from any connection with the passing hours, then 

 to the brain there is no flow of time. If there were no 

 visible sun, moon, or stars, nor any artificial instruments, 

 to denote duration, there would be no time, except the 

 rhythmic action of the vital organs, and the coming and 

 going of forms of matter. 



HETEROGENEOUSNESS. Montgomery, in "Analysis of 

 Racial Descent in Animals," contends that racial ad- 

 vancement is not from the homogeneous to the hetero- 

 geneous, but that it is the degree of morphological 

 departure from the original ancestor. Now, it is true, 

 the cell is a heterogeneous organ, as he contends, but 

 only in its potential growth energy. But, compared with 

 the heterogeneity of a matured man, both in structure 

 and function, it is quite, though not entirely homo- 

 geneous. Evolution in its broadest scope, including 

 inorganic and organic, is certainly a development from 

 the homogeneous to the less homogeneous, if the hypo- 



