TIME AND CHANGE 
upon it from without, but vitally evolved from 
within and that man himself is one of its products 
as literally as are the trees that stand rooted to the 
soil. Revert to the time when life was not, when the 
globe was a half-incandescent ball, or when it was a 
seething, weltering waste of heated water, before 
the land had yet emerged from the waves, and yet 
you and I were there in the latent potencies of the 
chemically and dynamically warring elements. We 
were there, the same as the heat and flame are in the 
coal and wood and as the explosive force of powder 
is in the grains. The creative cosmic chemistry in 
due time brought us forth, and started us on the long 
road that led from the amceba up to man. There 
have been no days of creation. Creation has been a 
continuous process, and the creator has been this 
principle of evolution inherent in all matter. 
Man himself was born of this principle. His 
genealogy finally runs back to the clod under his 
feet. One has no trouble in accepting the old Bibli- 
cal account of his origin from the dust of the earth 
when one views that dust in the light of modern 
science. 
Man is undoubtedly of animal origin. He is em- 
braced in the same zodlogical scheme as are all other 
creatures, and did not start as man any more than 
you and I started with our present stature, or than 
the earth sprang from chaos as we now behold it. 
His complete physical evolution must have been 
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