THE GOSPEL OF NATURE 
red corpuscles in the arteries of the infinite. If man 
has not yet appeared on the other planets, he will in 
time appear, and when he has disappeared from this 
globe, he will still continue elsewhere. 
I do not say that he is the end and aim of crea- 
tion; it would be logical, I think, to expect a still 
higher form. Man has been man but a little while 
comparatively, less than. one hour of the twenty- 
four of the vast geologic day; a few hours more and 
he will be gone; less than another geologic day like 
the past, and no doubt all life from the earth will be 
gone. What then? The game will be played over 
and over again in other worlds, without approach- 
ing any nearer the final end than we are now. There 
is no final end, as there was no absolute beginning, 
and can be none with the infinite. , 
THE END 
