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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 10, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 5.

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Evolution

By Mabel Corinne Craker

BY MABEL CORINNE CRAKER
EMPEDOCLES, the ancient Grecian, once Conceived the the'ry that by chance arose From out the playing of the elements With nature's forces, mingling and opposed, Small fragments of some quiv'ring atom life, Which, joined together by mere accident, Became some monstrous individuals That nature much abhorred. Her skill she lent, And soon survived the "fit" of species new.
Shall we to old Empedocles assent, And say that man from lower forms evolved? And shall we give our feeble brains the task Creation's great hypothesis to solve? If man is an improvement on the ape, In peril great is he. In time, perchance, He might degenerate, and find at last Some caudal or as queer appendages. 'Tis true that giants lived in days of old; That we to-day are smaller far than they; But man is man, and ape is ape, the same As when the bounds were set creation's day.