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life, who shall say that a higher form
of life may not be evolved from man?
! The invertebrate dies and the fish APP
pears, the fish perishes and the am
phibious animal appears, he gives way
i to the reptile which is succeeded by
the mammal, and from the mammal is
/ developed man. But why stop here?
/ The materialist tells US that our be-
! lief In a future existence is born of
our vanity; that we consider ourselves
| OF SO much consequence that one life is
not enough for US. Is it not greater
vanity for man to assume that he is
so perfect that Natures great process
/ of evolution must stop with him?
The materialist says angels? What
do you want with angels? A God?
What do you want with a God? A
higher order of being than we? It
strikes me my Christian friend that
you are rather hard to satisfy. 1t
strikes me that Nature has done her
level best right here!'
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Look at him! The insect Crawling
over the surface of this particular
atom of the Universe which we call
the earth and complacently insisting
that the vast planetary systems which
are daily born into space, are so many
chemical experiments for his deIecta-
tion and that the nightly round of stars
is a Heavenly circus for his amuse-
ment. The worm! wriggling upon the
ground; unable to live but in one ele-
ment Of his little world. The wild
goose that can live in three elements
is his physical superior, any dog can
outrun him, and any flea can out-jump
him. He is unable even to gaze at the
embers of ether without blinking, and
yet he fancies that Nature is so en-
amored of him as to cease all further |
efforts at development, that the acme |
has been reached in him, that he is !
perched upon the pinnacle of creation,
when in truth he is but one link in the
endless chain which stretches out over i
the purple paths of space, from the
depths of night to the home of the
singing stars.
Because our mortal senses cannot per-
ceive the beings evolved from US and
into which we merge, shall we there
fore say that there are no such beings?
Can you see the wind which sometimes
whirls forests and villages in demon !
waltzes to the music of the shaking
Nils can you see the el6cIfIcdi IOFce
which saturates earth and air when
copper wire is dropped into sulphuric
acid? Does the fish in the sea know
that there are animals who walk the
earth? Did anybody ever believe the
humorists story of the educated oyster,
who recognized his masters whistle
and responded to his caress?
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If man is the offspring of inferior
ife, why shall he not be in turn the
parent of superior life? The invisible
,ody that dwe1ls within and rules this
physical body, and goes out of it at
eath; the electric pattern on which the
,ioplasms weave nerve and muscle and
refn and bone and cuticle; the astral =
,ody of the Buddhist. the spiritual
'ody of which Paul speaks has indeed
10 form that the physical eye can see,
nd no substance that the physical !
and can seize But why may not
he unseen fingers of the spiritual body :
ontroI visible matter even as the I'M
cen fingers of the electric magnet
rest from the unseen grasp Of the at !
raction of grayitation the possession
f an iron rod.
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