54 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



predetermined shape. Its beginning is a minute 

 spheroid which, seen under the microscope, reveals 

 nothing resembling a pattern of what it is to become 

 only a little sac of fluid, with a tiny dot, near the 

 center, called a nucleus. But, when it comes in contact 

 with the proper sperm cell, it inaugurates a movement 

 of its particles, and division of its nucleus, which lead 

 to a geometrical multiplication of the one cell, until 

 thousands and millions of them are aggregated into 

 first one form, and then into another, until there 

 appears a heterogeneous organism almost exactly like 

 that from which the tiny original cell emanated. So 

 marvelous is this development, that the student is 

 struck with astonishment, that he does not see the 

 sculptor while the work proceeds. Yet it is only an 

 invisible artist, called cosmic energy, with the molding 

 power of the universe, guiding its unseen fingers, in 

 pinching the matter here, and pushing it out there, 

 placing the brain matter within a hard protecting 

 covering, and at the fore-front of the body ; the wonder- 

 ful pulsomer, and its vascular organs as delicate, in tis- 

 sue, as a gossamer thread, yet as strong as steel bands. 

 The proportions are perfectly preserved at every step ; 

 yet at the first stage the student thinks it must be 

 designed for a protozoon ; at the next, for a member of 

 the articulata, at the next for a vertebrate, and so 

 through the embryological forms of all animals, it at 

 last may become the body of a human genius, who will 

 astonish the world, with his mental powers. 



The same wonder can be expressed at the formation 

 of a crystal, and from that, the fabrication of a globe, 

 like the earth. The universe is an aggregation of 

 morphological bodies, all made of matter and motion, 

 manipulated by the unseen, but marvelous principle of 



