GREAT QUESTIONS IN LITTLE 



No matter how minute the gradations, unless we 

 allow our minds to be fooled with the old philosophi- 

 cal puzzle of the infinite divisibihty of space, we 

 come to a point in thought where consciousness 

 dawned. (To be and not be in the same moment of 

 time, that is the puzzle.) In like manner, as we go 

 down the scale of the organic toward the inorganic, 

 we must come to a point where one ceased and the 

 other began. By the process of reasoning that 

 proves that Achilles could never overtake the tor- 

 toise, we may prove that evolution of life never 

 began, the organic could never overtake the inor- 

 ganic. But the fact that once it was not here and is 

 here now, shows the fallacy of such reasoning. 



The evolution of one animal form from a preAd- 

 ously existing form has been an equally gradual 

 process. The horse did not begin as the horse; he 

 has been becoming horse through coimtless ages. 

 So with all other forms. The descendants of a 

 species which we find in one geologic horizon turn 

 out to be something vastly different in a later geo- 

 logic horizon. The passage from one species to an- 

 other actually took place, yet where can you draw 

 the line between them — between the non-man and 

 the man? 



The clock begins to strike, the clock itself as a 



piece of machinery had a beginning, the man who 



made the clock had a beginning in his mother's 



womb, but the beginning of the germ cell from 



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