24 Natural Salvation. 



standards. Metazoons, creatures of higher, more complex 

 organization, were to appear on the earth ; yet through all 

 these millions of years no sign or semblance of them was 

 visible. Were thre^ million centuries of unicellular life 

 necessary to prepare the earth's surface for metazoons? 

 The question is idle. Every measure of our estimation 

 of nature breaks down on extended application. We 

 have no code of morals for nature and can have none, 

 for nature is eternal, and man a being of yesterdays and 

 to-morrows. 



The point to make here pertains merely to the fact that 

 for ages and epochs, to which all subsequent time is but 

 as an hour to a day, a lowly unicellular life was all that 

 the earth bore. 



Observers from afar, if such there were, might well 

 have concluded that there would be no further develop- 

 ment ; thus other planets appear to our terrestrial astron- 

 omers ; the epoch of life, or of the higher life-forms, has 

 not yet arrived, or has passed. 



Then occurred a new departure in terrestrial life,- an 

 innovation, but when, how early, or how late in that 

 first long epoch of unicellular life we do not know. 

 Some time during those millions of the earth's unhistoric 

 revolutions an innovation on unicellular life began. 

 From accident of the environvent, or, perchance, from 



