224, THE UNIVERSE 



divorces, makes it a serious question for the future. 

 Already this pressing vital question causes the 

 wisest men of France to tremble for the future of 

 their race and nation, for its shrinking population 

 is forcing it from the rank of a first-class power 

 to the humiliation of weakness and decay. Will they 

 listen to France's Macedonian call and the law of 

 love and life written in their womanly natures? 



Humanity of the past and present is not final. 

 It shall not cease at the present development. Hu- 

 man society was never static. We are at the begin- 

 ning of the greatest changes in human history. 

 There will be no shock, but the transforming, silent 

 touch of universal evolution, whose voice speaks 

 thus : "We are the creatures of twilight, but out 

 of our minds and the lineage of our minds will 

 spring minds that will reach forward fearlessly. 

 A day will come one day in the unending succes- 

 sion of days when the beings now latent in our 

 thoughts, hidden in our loins, shall stand on this 

 earth as on a footstool, and they shall laugh and 

 reach out their hands among the stars." 



It is said that the flower which opens and smiles 

 upon the brink of an abyss is like love, which lives 

 also between two eternities. It is the most human 

 of the passions and at the same time the most 

 divine. It is the most intimate and the most ethe- 

 real ; it guides the poet when he scales the skies and 

 lifts the soul to celestial raptures. 



The gifted and the common mind are alike 

 troubled, agitated and exalted by this divinity who 

 evokes their silent passions and stirs their slumber- 

 ing fancy. 



Many animals change their form and color in the 



