Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-03
CHAPTER XXVI.-Continued.

We'll. if you-no, I'll say if one. spends
part of each day in examining ones ma
terial body, one is sure to note changes in
It and get filled with this age heresy, but
if one keeps looking out for new inven-
tons. new lines of thought and especially
new social growth, one sees that the race
itself is just emerging from childhood,
loses ones self in the great future Of the
race. forgets ones own body entirely, I'M
til first thing one knows one has TO spank
ones own grandchildren for thinking one
isn't as up to date as they are
II presume there is a grain Of truth in
your philosophy admitted Miss Burton.
smiling at Dicks closing phrase delivered
in the tone Of serious argument.
You try it as prescription and see II
there isn't more than a grain or truth
in it. Are you interested in evolution?
We'll. not deeply interested.
You re the loser; it's great fun MOST
people object even to being closely re-
lated to the anthropoid apes, but when
you trace their family tree back through
the amphibians to the genuine fish. and
next. to an individual with nothing but
skin and a stomach. winding up with
single cell as the original ancestor. they
make a noise like an emergency call.
Il must say that | am thankful that l
do not have to accept such a doctrine"
Did you ever stop to think that If it
were necessary to indorse the natural
laws before they would act. We shouldn
be here at all? We affirm and deny and
go to war over mysteries, but it doesn
make any difference-except to our i'm
mediate rela tives. The natural forces
work right along, and if We don't learn
anything else during our entire term eX-
cept that we are nothing but innocent by
ISLANDERS after all, we've learned lot
THAT rather does away with incentive,
does it not?''
Il have a friend who is a Russian. He
has great prejudice against orthodox
religion, but his whole life Is a religious
service. He is mystic and has to fight
against religion constantly. He has got
the fallen angels mixed up in his evolu-
ton and it's rather an interesting COM
plication. He says that when the angels
rebelled they were hurled out of heaven
with only one faculty and the germ &c, OF
eternal life. This one faculty was a dim,
misty memory of perfection Get it
clearly now, just a germ of eternal life
and a vague idea of perfection to go
with it. In order to make the contrast
complete, they were hurled to the very
depths of the inky ocean, where never
single ray of light can penetrate: and
there in the slime they gathered together
enough matter to make single cells apiece
and this gave the germ of life means
of expression. but there was 40 way to
express this idea of perfection. and 1t is
the irrepressible impulse to express our
selves which is life's greatest dynamic.
with this powerful yearning they con-
tinued to grope about in the sea. moan
ing with the anguish Of their inability to
than this, for single cell has nothing to
make a moan with. 1t was as though all
was paralyZed except the single brain
cell which held the conception of ones
strongest desire. They did not even have
seIf-consciousness. Well, they tossed
about in the water until some of them
gathered into clusters. This was a start.
and from that on they clustered together
until different cells began to perform
special functions. But when this was
done the newly formed organism had as
its true individuality, it's control, the
stricken soul of a banished angel, while
each of the component cells had nothing
but galvanic contact, through a nerve,
with the true ego.
You see. the first lesson learned was
interdependence, mutual assistance, and
all the succeeding lessons have been along
this line. Up the angels struggled. along
the stony path of self-development. until.
with the evolving of man, they have a
very decent machine to work with When
they help one another, they progress rap
idly; when they fight and compete they
sink back. Sooner or later experience
will teach them-but the charging on
this phase of it would take a week, and
perhaps it would weary you
II should not care for ii all in one les
son." replied Miss Burton, who had for
gotten her mission. but really it is very
interesting, and I had always supposed
evolution to be disgusting
This is not evolution; it is merely adj
vanced transmigration, the fitting of a
mystery to a science by a man who was
cast in the religious mold. Evolution
works just the other way. There was no
soul to begin with and the development
of functions has at the same time pro-
duced the mind and SOUL
''Oh, the soul must have come as gift