CHAPTER II 



THE EVOLUTIONARY RHYTHM 



"AND ANOTHER WOULD MOUNT AND MARCH,. LIKE 

 THE EXCELLENT MINION HE WAS, AY ANOTHER AND 

 YET ANOTHER, ONE CROWD BUT WITH MANY A CREST, 

 RAISING MY RAMPIRED WALLS OF GOLD AS TRANSPAR- 



The Chromidia were a most inferior order of be- 

 ings, if viewed at the close range wherewith science 

 would blind us to the truth, but given the historical 

 perspective necessary to clear visioning, a Chromid 

 was a very superior person. Indeed, if considered in 

 the light of what he did, none greater ever lived. To 

 what elements of character he owed this superiority, 

 I know not. There is evidence pointing to a strong 

 moral sense combined with a great love of the beauti- 

 ful. A spirit of harmony there certainly was, for in 

 some mysterious way this people (minute granules to 

 the eyes of the biologists) formed well-ordered states. 



These, the Protista, were possessed of central gov- 



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