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form and manifested new force. ‘True, in its first stages, 
life was of the lowest grade, but it was a new phenom- 
enon. There came the divergence between animal and 
plant life. The seaweed came, and the moss, the fern, 
the conifer, the cycas, the palm, and the angiosperm ; 
and parallel with these came all the various phases of 
animal life from the lowest unto the highest. Movement 
was progress. The appetency was strangely forward 
and upward. Then came thirst and hunger. Waste 
‘called for repair. There was struggle for existence. 
There was war in those days. Appetite and instinct, 
born of experience, were made allies. All points of ad- 
vantage, wh2ther of position, or movement, or color, or 
form, were quickly siezed. Force gave way to cunning, 
and cunning gave way to intelligence. From faintest 
glimmerings came the great warmth and carefulness of 
love. There came with the soul of man strange fears 
and hopes. The feeling of devotion struggled to utter 
itself through him. His soul became restless, and it 
was ever lured forward by unutterable ideals. And 
these phenomena of appetite and passion, of love and 
hope, of self-sacrifice and devotion are facts of nature 
just as really as are centripetal and centrifugal forces, 
as are heat and cold, as lightning-flash and auroral 
flush. Now why has this on-moving change in matter 
and force ever been upward? Why is there a ‘“‘sur- 
vival of the fittest??? Why is it that that which we 
call good and right is always synonymous with well- 
being? Everywhere and at all times the irrepressi- 
ble conflict is doomed to work out emancipation and 
amelioration. The manifest destiny points to perfection 
and blessedness. Why ¢ 
Think of it again. In that primal, tenuous fire-mist, 
were not only the sun, and its planets, not merely this 
globe with its granitic mountains, the weight of its 
mobile oceans,—not merely the keenness of frost, the 
