THE LONG ROAD 
into the farthest depths of siderial space; he has 
only very feeble occult powers of communication 
with his fellows, and yet he can talk around the 
world and send his voice across mountains and 
deserts; his hands are weak things beside a lion’s 
paw or an elephant’s trunk, and yet he can move 
mountains and stay rivers and set bounds to the 
wildest seas. His dog can out-smell him and out- 
run him and out-bite him, and yet his dog looks up 
to him as to a god. He has erring reason in place of 
unerring instinct, and yet he has changed the face of 
the planet. 
Without the specialization of the lower animals, 
— their wonderful adaptation to particular ends, — 
their tools, their weapons, their strength, their 
speed, man yet makes them all his servants. His 
brain is more than a match for all the special ad- 
vantages nature has given them. The one gift of 
reason makes him supreme in the world. 
VI 
We have a stake in all the past life of the globe. 
It is no doubt a scientific fact that your existence 
and mine were involved in the first cell that ap- 
peared, that the first zodphyte furthered our for- 
tunes, that the first worm gave usa lift. Great good 
luck came to us when the first pair of eyes were in- 
vented, probably by the trilobite back in Silurian 
times; when the first ear appeared, probably in 
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