TIME AND CHANGE 
The theory of evolution as applied to the whole 
universe and its inevitable corollary, the animal 
origin of man, is now well established in most of the 
leading minds of the world, but it is still rejected by 
many timid and sensitive souls, and it will be a long 
time before it becomes universally accepted. 
Doubtless one source of the trouble we have in 
accepting the theory comes from the fact that our 
minds have not been used to such thoughts; in the 
mind of the race they are a new thing: they are not 
in the literature nor in the philosophy nor in the 
sacred books in which our minds have been nurtured; 
they are of yesterday; they came to us raw and un- 
hallowed by the usage of ages; more than that, they 
savor of the materialism of all modern science, 
which is so distasteful to our finer ideals and religious 
sensibilities. In fact, these ideas are strangers of an 
alien race in our intellectual household, and we look 
upon them coldly and distrustfully. But probably 
to our children, or to our children’s children, they will 
wear quite a different countenance; they will have 
become an accepted part of the great family of ideas 
of the race. 
Another hindrance is the dullness and opacity of 
our own minds. We are slow to wake up to a sense 
of the divinity that hedges us about. The great 
office of science has been to show us this universe as 
much more wonderful and divine than we have been 
wont to believe; shot through and through with celes- 
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