Excerpt from Salvation by Science (Natural Salvation): Immortal Life on the Earth From the Growth of Knowledge and the Development of the Human Brain When we consider the humble beginnings of organic life on the earth - developing as it has done from the primitive unicellular life - the Spectacle presented by humanity at this epoch is one of reasonable promise. From the unicells multicellular organisms have developed; and from these lower animal forms, man has arisen. It has been the Slow work of millions of years; but it has been done so surely and the progress has, on the whole, been so uniform and so well defined, that it appears highly improbable that this great evolutionary effort is to end in mortal man, incomplete as he is, with his many capacities for further progress undeveloped. Such stupendous balks in the order of nature occur only along the line of catastrophism; a cosmic cataclysm involving the solar sys tem might suddenly or slowly end all things terrestrial. Otherwise a reasonable expectation obtains, that humanity will make progress in the future as in the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.