on the lower plane in order that it may be re-established on a higher plane.

Evolution is "The actual formation of a part or of the whole of an organism which previously existed only as a germ or starting-point: ordinary natural growth, as of living creatures, from the starting-point, to the adult or perfect state, as the evolution of an animal from the egg, or of a plant from the seed; the evolution of the blossom from the bud, or of the fruit from the blossom: the evolution of the butter-fly from the caterpillar, "-the frog from the tad-pole. "The evolution of a moth from the cocoon, of an insect from the wood or mud in which it lived as a grub, of a chick from the egg-shell which contained it as an embryo. In general, the passage from unorganized simplicity to organized complexity, that is, to a nicer and more elaborate arrangement for reaching definite ends. "* As my baby-seed from Father-Mother unto my precious child-Diantha, a Woman!

Our great minds have come down the ages, giving us the wondrous lesson that evolution is Life's mighty chain, the chain in which each link has its necessary place, in which no link is missing. Study the whole face of the earth, the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, the forms of living things, seeing the casual-connection, as evolving one from another; the growth of nations, linking one age with another, the roots of the part to which the present link connects. These wondrous evolutionary-lessons carry us step after step, dear, from the speck of dust to the big elephant, as Emerson teaches:

"And striving to be man, the worm

Mounts thru all the spirals of form.” Evolution traces the human-race upward from the caveman to the thinking-man, link after link, from the lowest to the highest, each connected with the other, the whole chain of forms in successive growth from parent to offspring in one winding, ascending, spiral, until the human intellect cannot remain content in the face of these stupendous thots, but dreams the dreams of the Golden-Age that shall at last come upon the earth, when humanity shall have evolved as far above the present, as the hu

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manity of today is above the humanities of the cave-man. Evolution is the ordained law of growth. It is slow, sure and sane-the only wise teacher. Evolution reveals that the best qualities of each form of life are preserved and pass to the next successor the Immortality of the Soul. The best and strongest part of man is his thotthe Mind his Spiritual Ego, his accumulated experiences built into character, the best of him which lives after the so-called death, as it evolves into the Higher, finer Life. This being the meaning of evolution, it proves there is an Unseen-Force compelling each form of life and understanding to evolve its best qualities. Why does the mollusk instinctively preserve those qualities which afterwards grow into fish? Why does the fish let all things else perish, except that which may become reptile? Why does the reptile nurse those rudiments which may develop into a bird? Observe the snake coiling himself around and around, forming a spiral-position like the thread of a screw. As he springs forth he again expresses the advanced spiral-movements in his own evolutionary motion thru space. Why does the bird conserve those features which are needed in the mammal? Why does the quadruped the bear, the monkey-cultivate that which in some coming evolution will walk erect? It is because evolution is the law of all life, upward, onward, to upreach in some form toward the Higher-Life. "The worm that crawls under our feet today is a God to be.

In the Higher-life Evolution governs as we see it governs the physical here. If advantages can be gained in our future lives by following certain courses of mental, moral and spiritual preparation in this life, what more natural than that this evolutionary-power should afford us a knowledge of these laws? How can that knowledge be better communicated than thru human-instruments inspired to receive and translate it? If God whispers to the instinct of the reptile how best to pass into a bird, in some future life, why not send a wireless to man, how best to become a Christ? We have the lessons of evolution from the First-Gods to the latest Prophets. Thru endless incarnations man shall evolve to "Freedom from Misery, '

declared Buddha. Christ teaches this evolutionary lesson: "The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do. "

Evolution is the wondrous scheme of the mind-selfmoving.

Evolution is the wondrous plan of the Projector for the building of his worlds.

Evolution is a means to an end.

Evolution is the unfolding of all that God enfolded. Evolution is one gradual-initiation into the mystery, secrecy of life, man's Divine-Origin.

Evolution is Life.

Life is Evolution!

Evolution will gradually teach one first to respect her law, second, to co-operate in a particular, peculiar, selfanalysis, of individual unfoldment, unwinding one's self out of earthly-trouble, and consciously ascending into the life of Purity, Serenity and Self-Perfection.

Evolution is an eternal Sunrise.

Evolution is growth-the law of God working out His Will in orderly-succession.

God speaks in evolution, whosoever ignores evolution, denies God.

"Evolution begins- .?

and ends?"

EVOLUTION

"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish,

In the Paleozoic time,

And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.

Mindless we lived and mindless we loved,
And mindless at last we died;

And deep in a rift of the Caradoc drift

We slumbered side by side.

The world turned on in the lathe of time,

The hot lands heaved amain,

Till we caught our breath from the womb of death,
And crept into light again.

EVOLUTION

We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed
And drab as a dead man's hand;

We coiled at ease 'neath the dripping trees,

Or trailed through the mud and sand,

Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed feet
Writing a language dumb,

With never a spark in the empty dark

To hint at a life to come.

Yet happy we lived, and happy we loved,
And happy we died once more;

Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold
Of a Neocomian shore.

The eons came, and the eons fled,
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was driven away in a newer day,
And the night of death was past.

Then light and swift through the jungle trees
We swung in our airy flights,

Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms,
In the hush of the moonless nights,

And oh! what beautiful years were these,

When our hearts clung each to each;

When life was filled, and our senses thrilled
In the first faint dawn of speech.

Thus life by life, and love by love,

We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath, and death by death,
We followed the chain of change.

Till there came a time in the law of life
When over the nursing sod

The shadows broke, and the soul awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.

I was thewed like an Auroch bull,
And tusked like the great Cave Bear;
And you, my sweet, from head to feet,
Were gowned in your glorious hair.
Deep in the gloom of a fireless cave,
When the night fell o'er the plain,

And the moon hung red o'er the river bed,
We mumbled the bones of the slain.

I flaked a flint to a cutting edge,
And shaped it with brutish craft;

I broke a shank from the woodland dank,

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And fitted it, head and haft.

Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn,
Where the Mammoth came to drink;—
Through brawn and bone I drave the stone,
And slew him upon the brink.

Loud I howled through the moonlit wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin;
From west and east to the crimson feast
The clan came trooping in.

O'er joint and gristle and padded hoof,
We fought and clawed and tore,
And cheek by jowl, with many a growl,
We talked the marvel o'er.

I carved that fight on a reindeer bone,
With rude and hairy hand,

I pictured his fall on the cavern wall
That men might understand.

For we lived by blood, and the right of might,

Ere human laws were drawn,

And the Age of Sin did not begin

Till our brutal tusks were gone.

And that was a million years ago,

In a time that no man knows;

Yet here tonight in the mellow light,
We sit at Delmonico's;

Your eyes are deep as the Devon springs,

Your hair is as dark as jet,

Your years are few, your life is new,

Your soul untried, and yet

Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay,

And the scarp of the Purbeck flags,

We have left our bones in the Bagshot stones,

And deep in the Coraline crags;

Our love is old, our lives are old,

And death shall come amain;

Should it come today, what man may say

We shall not live again?

God wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds
And furnished them wings to fly;

He sowed our spawn in the world's dim dawn,
And I know that it shall not die;
Though cities have sprung above the graves
Where the crook-boned men made war,

And the ox-wain creaks o'er the buried caves
Where the mummied mammoths are.