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gamation of the cells there came organization, 

 development, improvement. 



Some of the cells in each amalgamation, let 

 us say, specialize on seeing, some on locomotion, 

 some on digestion. 



Thus, while each simple cell had all of these 

 powers in a limited way, yet the new creature, 

 as a result of specialization, could see better, 

 move more readily, digest more easily, than the 

 separate elements which went into it. 



And so, through the early pictures of our reel, 

 there would be spread before us the development 

 of the little simple cell into more and more 

 complex forms of life — first vegetable, then half 

 vegetable-animal — into everything, finally, that 

 lives and grows about us to-day — into us, 

 ourselves. 



In an actual motion picture as it is thrown 

 on the screen, it is only the quick progressive 

 succession of the pictures that makes us realize 

 the sense of motion. 



If we were to detach and examine a single 

 film from the reel, it would show no movement. 

 It would be as stationary and as fixed as a child's 

 first kodak snapshot. 



In the motion picture of nature's evolution, 

 the world, as we see it about us in our lifetime, 

 represents but a single snapshot, detached from 



