TIME AND CHANGE 
the book of genesis of the rocky scripture of the 
globe — a book torn and mutilated, that has been 
through fire and flood and earthquake shock, that 
has been in the sea and on the heights, and that only 
the paleontologist can read or decipher correctly, 
but which is a veritable bible of the succession of life 
on the earth. The events of the days of creation are 
recorded here, but they are days of such length that 
they are to be reckoned only in millions of years. 
The evolution of the horse, according to the best 
and latest research, from the eohippus of Eocene 
times —- a small mammal no larger than the fox — 
to the proud and fleet creature that we prize to-day, 
occupied four or five millions of years. Think of that 
first known progenitor of the horse as never dying, 
but living on through the geological ages and being 
slowly, oh, so slowly, modified by its environment, 
changing its teeth, its hoofs, enlarging its body, . 
lengthening its limbs, and so on, till it becomes the 
horse we know to-day. : 
In accepting the theory of the animal origin of 
man we have got to follow man back, not only till 
we find him a naked savage like the Fuegians as 
Darwin describes them, — naked, bedaubed with 
paint, with matted hair and looks wild and distrust- 
ful, —but we cannot stop there, we must follow him 
back till he becomes a troglodyte, a cave-dweller, 
contending with the cave bear, the cave lion, and 
the hyena for the possession of this rude shelter; 
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