THE PHANTOMS BEHIND US 
bodies are not less divine, but all things are more 
divine. We have to gird up our loins and try to 
summon strength to see this tremendous universe 
as it is, alive and divine to the last particle and em- 
bosomed in the Infinite. 
It 
Evolution is not the final explanation of the uni- 
verse, but it is probably the largest generalization 
of the modern mind. Science has to start some- 
where, and it starts with the universe as it finds it 
and seeks to trace secondary or proximate causes; 
the evolutionist seeks to trace the footsteps of cre- 
ative energy in the world of animal life. How did 
God make man? Out of the dust of the earth, says 
the Bible of our fathers. The evolutionist teaches 
essentially the same thing, only he does not abridge 
the process as the catechism has abridged it for us; 
he would fain unfold the whole long road that man 
has traveled from the first protozoic cell to the vast 
communities of cells that now make up his physical 
life. He would show how man has risen on stepping- 
stones of his dead self. These stepping-stones have 
been the animal forms below him. In them and 
through them something, some impulse, some force, 
has mounted and mounted through all the enormous 
lapse of geologic time. In imagination we see the 
dim, shadowy man, restless and struggling in a vast 
number of earlier forms. He has struggled up- 
205 
