Many presume that at least modern science has completely obliterated the old-fashioned notion that man was the centre and the culmi nation of creation for whom other parts were made and to whom their activities were mainly directed. Alfred Russell Wallace, however, in his volume, (Man's Place in The Universe' has re-established that old idea on the firmest of modern scientific and evolutionary bases. Surely no one can talk with more authority in the matter than the man who with Darwin dis covered the principle of natural selection. Wallace goes so far as to say °and is it not in perfect harmony with this grandeur of design (if it be design), this vastness of scale, this marvelous process of development through all the ages, that the material universe needed to produce this cradle of organic life and of being destined to a higher and a permanent existence, should be on a corresponding scale of vastness of complexity and of beauty? During the whole process of the rise and growth and extinction of past forms the earth has been pre paring for the ultimate man — much of the wealth and luxuriance of living things, the in finite variety of forms and structure the ex quisite grace and beauty in bird and insect, in foliage and flower, may have been mere by products of the grand mechanism we call na ture — the one and only method of developing humanity."
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