EVOLUTION 



earth. And it was so. This 

 was the order that the revela- 

 tion of God was to descend to 

 all living beings, in the form 

 of the light of divine revela- 

 tion, this day being the dawn 

 of mind in animal, which was 

 not created till the fifth day of 

 Evolution, although it was in 

 existence, but it lay dormant 

 from the first day of Creation. 

 We now come to the light of 

 day, which was created on the 

 Fourth and Fifth Days of 

 Creation. 



And God made two great 

 lights, the greater to rule the 

 day, and the lesser light to 

 rule the night. 



Here again we retrace our 

 steps to the third day of Evo- 

 lution, when the moon parted 

 from the earth. So the under- 

 current of Genesis throughout, 

 while explaining the course of 

 evolution in its description, fol- 

 lows the modes of Evolution. 



He made the stars, also God 

 set them in the Firmament of 

 Heaven to give light unto the 

 earth and to rule over the day 

 and over the night. And God 

 saw it was good. 



NOTE : As this day does 

 not progress past the Fourth 

 Day of Convolution, the eve 

 and the morning is not in- 

 serted after the description of 

 this day in Genesis. We now 

 retrace our steps from the 

 Fifth and Sixth Days of 



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and divided them upon the 

 earth. " Any student of Evo- 

 lution will be able to follow 

 these periods in any work he 

 likes to study, but for the be- 

 ginner I should strongly re- 

 commend " The Story of Evo- 

 lution," by Joseph McCabe 

 (published by Hutchinson & 

 Co.). As in these waters a 

 vast amount of seaweed life 

 grew, plant life dawned upon 

 the world in a most super- 

 abundant growth of submarine 

 plant existence, which, under 

 the high temperature preva- 

 lent at this period of Evolu- 

 tion, produced a growth of 

 plant life, the prolific extent of 

 which is beyond our concep- 

 tion. This is the fourth day, 

 the day or age of plant life. 

 Then later some of these sea- 

 weeds became small jelly fish, 

 or protozoa, gifted with the 

 most wonderful powers of vi- 

 tality and most minute semi- 

 vegetable and semi-animal 

 productions, half plant and 

 half jelly fish, in such shapes, 

 which increased and multiplied 

 in the heated waters till the 

 oceans were alive with millions 

 of these, the first creations of 

 animal life, as has already 

 been explained in Book I. 

 These formed the germs of 

 animal out of plant existence, 

 and some of them form the 

 vertebrates of animal exist- 

 ences. Thus we come to the 



