-THE WORM STRIVING TO BE MAN 
achieved thousands of centuries ago, but his full 
mental and spiritual evolution is not yet. 
I think of his physical evolution as completed 
when he assumed the upright attitude or passed 
from a quadruped to a biped, which must of itself 
have been a long, slow process. Probably our whole 
historic period would form but a fraction of this 
cycle of unrecorded time. Man’s complete emer- 
gence from the lower orders, so that he stood off in 
sharp contrast tothem in his physical form probably 
occurred in later Tertiary times,and what the mean- 
ing of this stretch of time is in human years we can 
only conjecture. During this cycle of numberless 
millenniums till the dawn of history, man’s develop- 
ment was mainly mental. He left the brute crea- 
ture behind because his mind continued to develop 
after his physical form was complete, while the brute 
stood still. Whence the impulse that sent man for- 
ward? Why was one animal form endowed with the 
capacity for endless growth and development, and 
all the others denied it? Ah! that is the question of 
questions. Compared with the development of his 
bodily powers, man’s mental and spiritual growth 
has been very rapid. He seems to have been mil- 
lions of years in getting his body, while he has been 
only millenniums in getting his reason and intelli- 
gence. What progress since the dawn of history! 
Compare the Germans of the time of Tacitus, or the 
Gauls of the time of Cesar, or the Britons of the 
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