Human Life. 1S9 



XXL 



HUMAN LIFE. 



LIFE has swept upward to man. Beginning 

 with the simplest and lowliest of creatures, 

 away back when the earth was just becoming able 

 to nourish the new life forming upon it, there have 

 slowly come forward more and more complex 

 creatures, until at last man himself has been ush- 

 ered upon the scene. 



Not in haste or unheralded did he come forth. 

 No new organs and no new functions came into 

 existence when he came. He was but the climax, 

 the crown of the life that had been for countless 

 ages evolving upon the earth. 



Looking back along the tortuous and yet ever 

 ascending pathway life has traversed to its destina- 

 tion in the human form, we reverently discern that 

 Nature, with supreme foresight, recognized man's 

 necessities in the first cell of protoplasm that 

 formed upon the earth. These primitive cells, 

 delicate, perishable in their rude and violent sur- 

 roundings, yet persisting and multiplying, held 

 within their frail substance the mighty life-force 

 which was later to surge over the globe in count- 

 less forms of amazing complexity. 



