Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When all mankind alike is perfected, Equal in full-blown powers—then, not till then, I say, begins man’s general infancy.” This view is one of great hope and en¬ couragement; for it accounts for many of the evils and troubles in the world. “ God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,”— yes, in one sense. All is ultimately right : we are on the path to higher things. But we have not yet attained them: the structure is incomplete, unfinished, in process of construction. The world is like a builder’s yard in which an edifice is rising that may ultimately be beautiful, satisfactory, complete; but now it is covered with scaffolding, its features can hardly be discerned, a mass of builders’ material and apparent rubbish is lying around; all which however has its part to play, and is a necessary stage in the development of the ultimate fabric. The human race began but a short time ago; it may have millions of years before it on this same planet. It is calculated that the sun will only have lost one per cent, of its substance—will be only one per cent, less bright—in one hundred and 185
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