TIME AND CHANGE 
its branches? What determined one branch to 
eventuate in man, another in the dog, the horse, 
the bird, or the reptile? 
From the finite or human point of view we feel 
compelled to say some vaster being or intelligence 
must have had the thought of all these things from 
the beginning or before the beginning. 
It is quite impossible for me to believe that for- 
tuitous variation — variation all around the circle— 
could have resulted in the evolution of man. There 
must have been a predetermined tendency to varia- 
tion in certain directions. To introduce chance into 
the world is to introduce chaos. No more would the 
waters of the interiors of the continents find their 
way to the sea, were there not a slant in that direc- 
tion, than could haphazard variation, though checked 
and controlled by natural selection, result in the 
production of the race of man. This view may be 
only the outcome of our inevitable anthropomor- 
phism which we cannot escape from, no matter how 
deep we dive or high we soar. 
