44 EVOLUTION MADE PLAIN 
that large-souled race of the future does not 
mingle with your shame of an animal ancestry 
when you rise and exclaim, “Away with the 
theory of the upward trend in God’s works; I 
will none of it?”—for it is a fact that whatever 
sense of shame one may feel for our lowly an¬ 
cestors it is more than compensated for by the 
pride one may feel for the noble race that is to 
be; because if the path along which we have 
travelled in past ages points downward in the 
rear, it just as surely points upward in front. 
Our destiny will be as high as our origin was 
low. And as man drops his foolish prejudices 
and grows more intelligent, as he learns more 
about the laws of his development, the more 
rapidly will he advance physically, mentally, 
spiritually. 
Ah! Parson, far better to be the tadpole an¬ 
cestor of an ever-progressive angel breed than 
be the degraded descendant of a race of gods; 
yet a race without hope of ever again reaching 
the much-lauded, pristine purity and perfec¬ 
tion of Adam—a creature really whose moral 
status was so low, and who was so weak, that 
he fell at the first temptation. 
Civilization, culture, the moral nature of 
man, have been developed; they are not the 
remains of something that has been lost. Hu¬ 
man nature is not ruined, but is unfinished. 
The god-like race is not of the past, but be¬ 
longs to the future. Man entered the zone of 
sin not from above, but from below. Probably 
no man who ever walked this earth save Jesus 
Christ has ever breathed the pure moral at¬ 
mosphere above the zone of sin. Through this 
