TIME AND CHANGE 
house of the most approved pattern? Without this 
merciless justice, this irrefragable law, where should 
we have brought up long ago? It is a hard gospel; 
but rocks are hard too, yet they form the founda- 
tions of the hills. 
Man introduces benevolence, mercy, altruism, 
into the world, and he pays the price in his added 
burdens; and he reaps his reward in the vast social 
and civic organizations that were impossible with- 
out these things. 
I have no doubt that the life of man upon this 
planet will end, as all other forms of life will end. 
But the potential man will continue and does con- 
tinue on other spheres. One cannot think of one 
part of the universe as producing man, and no other 
part as capable of it. The universe is all of a piece 
so far as its material constituents are concerned; 
that we know. Can there be any doubt that it is 
all of a piece so far as its invisible and intangible 
forces and capabilities are concerned? Can we be- 
lieve that the earth is an alien and a stranger in the 
universe? that it has no near kin? that there is no 
tie of blood, so to speak, between it and the other 
planets and systems? Are the planets not all of one 
family, sitting around the same central source of 
warmth and life? And is not our system a member 
of a still larger family or tribe, and it of a still larger, 
all bound together by ties of consanguinity? Size 
is nothing, space is nothing. The worlds are only 
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