CONFIRMS SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION 69 



translucent, so that the sun's electric currents could 

 affect the earth through electric transfer. Thus the 

 influx of external light upon planetary life was 

 positive and marvelous, introducing a new power 

 upon the forming organic life in the vegetable and 

 animal world, and working great changes in all 

 organic structures. And in response to this new 

 power the eye began to form and a new and distinct 

 organ of sense was perfected. It was slowly devel- 

 oped at first, for the light radiated from the sun 

 penetrated the mists of earth dimly, for it was al- 

 most midnight gloom in some sections and dusky 

 twilight in others. 



So far I have said nothing of excessive heat, for 

 the earth began in excessive cold. But as the earth 

 magnet or dynamo increased its electric power it 

 increased its heat. 



We now come to the dawn of instinct or ration- 

 ality in the primitive types of life. There we find a 

 basis for the first principles of instinct or animal 

 rationality in the balancing of one sense by the 

 exercise of another, and the combined results of the 

 two. Seeing and feeling gave a higher type of brain 

 power, and raised that organ to a higher grade of 

 perception and a newer type of intelligence. 



Then another faculty added its powers to the sense 

 of sight and feeling, for the atmosphere in which the 

 reptilian tribes were living half the time or more 

 were sending out sound waves which touched the 

 nervous filaments of the central battery of the 

 brain, and as the eye had formed to respond to the 

 waves of ether caused by the electric currents of the 

 sun, so a new organ began its formation in response 

 to the incoming waves of power the atmosphere 



