TIME AND CHANGE 
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THE LONG ROAD 
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HE long road I have in mind is the long road of 
evolution, — the road you and I have traveled 
in the guise of humbler organisms, from the first uni- 
cellular life in the old Cambrian seas to the complex 
and highly specialized creature that rules supreme in 
the animal kingdom to-day. Surely a long journey, 
stretching through immeasurable epochs of geologic 
time, and attended by vicissitudes of which we can 
form but feeble conceptions. 
The majority of readers, I fancy, are not yet ready 
to admit that they, or any of their forebears, have 
ever made such a journey. We have all long been 
taught that our race was started upon its career only 
a few thousand years ago, started, not amid the war- 
rings of savage elemental nature, but in a pleasant 
garden with everything needed close at hand. This 
belief has faded a good deal in our time, especially 
among thoughtful persons; but in a modified form, 
as the special creation theory, it held sway in the 
minds of the older naturalists like Agassiz and Daw- 
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