EVOLUTION IN GENERAL 



Science of the Stars, as overpowering to the imag- 

 ination, it has thrown the universe into a fresh 

 perspective, and given the human mind a new 

 dimension. Evolution involves not so much a 

 change of opinion as a change in man's whole 

 view of the world and of life. It is not the state-' 

 ment of a mathematical proposition which men are 

 called upon to declare true or false. It is a 

 method of looking upon Nature. Science for cen- 

 turies devoted itself to the cataloguing of facts and 

 the discovery of laws. Each worker toiled in his 

 own little place — the geologist in his quarry, the 

 botanist in his garden, the biologist in his labora- 

 tory, the astronomer in his observatory, the historian 

 in his library, the archaeologist in his museum. 

 Suddenly these workers looked up ; they spoke to 

 one another ; they had each discovered a law ; they 

 whispered its name. It was Evolution. Henceforth 

 their work was one, science was one, the world 

 was one, and mind, which discovered the oneness, 

 was one. 



Such being the scope of the theory, it is essen- 

 tial that for its interpretation this universal charac- 

 ter be recognized, and no phenomenon in nature or 

 in human nature be left out of the final reckoning. 

 It is equally clear that in making that interpreta- 

 tion we must begin with the final product, Man. 



