TIME AND CHANGE 
In the early Tertiary, millions of years ago, the 
earth seems to have been ripe for man. The fruits 
and vegetables and the forest trees were much as we 
know them, the animals that have been most serv- 
iceable to us were here, spring and summer and 
fall and winter came and went, evidently birds sang, 
insects hummed, flowers bloomed, fruits and grains 
and nuts ripened, and yet man as man was not. 
Under the city of London is a vast deposit of 
clay in which thousands of specimens of fossil 
fruit have been found like our date, cocoanut, areca, 
custard-apple, gourd, melon, coffee, bean, pepper, 
and cotton plant, but no sign of man. Why was 
his development so tardy? What animal profited 
by this rich vegetable life? The hope and promise 
of the human species at that time probably slept in 
some lowly marsupial. Man has gathered up into 
himself, as he traveled his devious way, all the best 
powers of the animal kingdom he has passed through. 
His brain supplies him with all that his body lacks, 
and more. His specialization is in this highly de- 
veloped organ. It is this that separates him so 
widely from all other animals. 
Man has no wings, and yet he can soar above the 
clouds; he is not swift of foot, and yet he can out- 
speed the fleetest hound or horse; he has but feeble 
weapons in his organization, and yet he can slay 
or master all the great beasts; his eye is not so sharp 
as that of the eagle or the vulture, and yet he can see 
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