GREAT QUESTIONS IN LITTLE 
Hence the truth at the bottom of the old myth, 
that it was by the fall of man came all our diseases. 
The birth of reason was the fall of man, and only 
then did error and sin become possible; only when 
man crosses Nature and seeks to rule her, does 
disease, as we know it, appear, because only then 
does error appear. The animals do not err; they 
go along with Nature; it is a survival of the fittest; 
but give an animal a tool or a weapon, and the 
naturally weak may survive over the naturally 
strong. If we could only know all the steps of man’s 
progress from his nearest animal ancestor! 
The third step in man’s progress was taken when 
he tamed and used other animals. His fourth great 
step was when he began to cultivate the soil, or to 
plant and reap. At first he was, of course, a hunter 
and fisherman. He must have evolved some sort 
of language soon after his emergence from the 
lower animal state. Writing, of course, came much 
later. 
The greatest step of all will be when man learns 
to stamp out disease through his more complete 
knowledge of Nature. 
Vv. ASTRONOMIC GRANDEUR 
We humanize the nature we see around us in field 
and river and wood; we infuse ourselves into it; we 
fill the lap of earth with treasures not her own; but 
when we look up to the heavens, when we behold 
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