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MAN VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
Chapter I.
HOW THESE THINGS AKE KNOWN.
Man is a curiously complex being, and his
evolution, past, present and future, is a study
of perennial interest for all who can see and
understand. Through what toilsome eternities
of gradual development he has come to be what
he is, to what round in the long ladder of his
progress he has now attained, what possibilities
of further progress the veil of the future conceals
from us, these are questions to which few can be
indifferent—questions which have been occurring
all through the ages to every one who has thought
at all.
Among us in the Western world the answers
given have been many and various. There has
been much dogmatic assertion, based on differing
interpretations of alleged revelation; there have
been many ingenious speculations, the fruit in
Chapter I.
HOW THESE THINGS AKE KNOWN.
Man is a curiously complex being, and his
evolution, past, present and future, is a study
of perennial interest for all who can see and
understand. Through what toilsome eternities
of gradual development he has come to be what
he is, to what round in the long ladder of his
progress he has now attained, what possibilities
of further progress the veil of the future conceals
from us, these are questions to which few can be
indifferent—questions which have been occurring
all through the ages to every one who has thought
at all.
Among us in the Western world the answers
given have been many and various. There has
been much dogmatic assertion, based on differing
interpretations of alleged revelation; there have
been many ingenious speculations, the fruit in