THE LONG ROAD 
the nervous system, ages and ages to develop the 
centralized ganglia, the brain. First life was like 
a rabble, a mob, without thought or head, then slowly 
organization went on, as it were, from family to 
clan, from clan to tribe, from tribe to nation, or 
centralized government — the brain of man — all 
parts duly subordinated and directed, — millions 
of cells organized and working on different functions 
to one grand end, — coéperation, fraternization, 
division of labor, altruism, etc. 
The cell was the first invention; it is the unit of 
life, — a speck of protoplasm with a nucleus. To 
educate this cell till it could combine with its fellows 
and form the higher animals seems to have been the 
aim of the creative energy. First the cell, then com- 
binations of cells, then combinations of combina- 
tions, then more and more complex combinations 
till the body of man is reached, where endless con- 
fraternities of cells, all with different functions, 
working to build and sustain different organs, — 
brain, heart, liver, muscles, nerves, — yet all work- 
ing together for one grand end — the body and 
mind of man. In their last analysis, all made up of 
the same cells — their combinations and organiza- 
tion making the different forms. 
Evolution touches all forms but tarries with few. 
Many are called but few are chosen — chosen to 
lead the man-impulse upward. Myriads of forms 
are left behind, like driftwood caught in the eddies 
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