444 THE ASCENT OF MAN 



work. It spent an eternity over the earth, but 

 finished it. It struggled for millenniums to bring 

 the Vegetable Kingdom up to the Flowering Plants, 

 and attained. In the Animal Kingdom it never 

 paused until the possibilities of organization were 

 exhausted in the Mammalia. Kindled by this 

 past, Man may surely say, " I shall arrive." The 

 succession cannot break. The Further Evolution 

 must go on, the Higher Kingdom come — first the 

 blade, where we are to-day ; then the ear, where 

 we shall be to-morrow ; then the full corn in the 

 ear, which awaits our children's children, and which 

 we live to hasten. 



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GtASaOW : PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLKnOSE AND CO. LTP. 



