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PBOOFS OF EVOLUTION. 
of the sublime drama of all time. Is this all a 
meaningless phenomenon, a senseless panorama? 
Is this “epitome and brief chronicle” of the ages 
only a whimsical incantation of some occult 
power? Is it not rather, on the contrary, a 
demonstration of Nature’s method of Evolu¬ 
tion ? 
Metamorphosis makes this assurance doubly 
sure; for we can see the evolving forms before 
our very eyes. Nature is an unsolvable riddle 
only to the sightless and thoughtless. 
Rudimentary organs are among the strongest 
proofs of descent, and are present throughout the 
vegetable and animal kingdoms. To the biologist, 
man is a curiosity shop, the whale a traveling 
museum. Was Man created in the image of his 
Maker? Why, he isn’t half made yet. The 
chips of the shop are still on him. He needs yet 
the emery-stone of time. But he is in the hands 
of a tireless Master, deft fashioner of form and 
function—Evolution. 
Artificial Breeding is proof of the method of 
Nature’s workings. Man can accelerate the 
process of Nature. He has given us better stock 
and better food-stuffs. Darwin in twenty years 
