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man to evolve the quality of Imagination which were to start 

 the birth in his brain of both mind and soul. 



I have now taken my reader in conception along the road 

 of evolution, I admit, in a very elementary fashion, but I am 

 trying to make this a short story rather than a scientific 

 treatise, a sort of evolutionary novel, so to speak, that may 

 interest the unscientific man, and so cause him to realise that 

 practical rules of life may be adduced from the study of evolu- 

 tion. For many enquirers constantly ask me what is the 

 practical use of evolution, any more than the discovery of the 

 North Pole ? I reply that if properly studied and understood, 

 it is the shortest and safest way to arrive at the goal of a useful 

 and unselfish mode of life, and the only way you can arrive 

 at a knowledge of how to convert this world into heaven. 



I can only be the coxswain or steersman to direct the 

 course of such evolutions as Religion, Science and Govern- 

 ment towards the one common goal of heaven and immortality. 

 It must be the work of the combined efforts of future theolo- 

 gians, scientists and statesmen, who are the oarsmen in the 

 boat of creation, by all endeavouring to pull together in one 

 and the same boat, to propel the craft into the harbour of 

 heaven. So we now find that the environments of evolution are 

 busy at work some one or two hundred thousand years ago to 

 engender more active forms of Imagination that man may the 

 better employ the brain which the upright position permits him 

 evolving, and, by inventing new directions of skill, for the 

 thumb he has evolved in his fight to stand upright. So we 

 now find that his nomadic life as a huntsman and a pastoralist 

 evolves his Imagination. He therefore commences to make 

 tools and weapons of stone to replace those of wood, and this 

 enables him to pursue and slay the beasts which, owing to the 

 increase of population in the southern and warmer climates 

 of the globe, are fleeing north to escape this small member of 

 their family, man, who has made himself their conqueror and 

 is fast hoisting his victorious flag over the more prolific tropi- 

 cal regions where only the most powerful of his antagonists 

 dare remain and dispute his supremacy. These northern 

 huntsmen and pastoralists, whom the Bible described as the 

 children of Abel and Seth, who were such as loved a free and 

 easy life, in close touch with nature, and who were described 

 as " such as dwell in tents," are to form the base of the 



