The Story of Evolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533238917)

An ingenious student of science once entertained his generation with a theory of how one might behold again all the stirring chapters that make up the story of the earth. The living scene of our time is lit by the light of the sun, and for every few rays that enter the human eye, and convey the image of it to the human mind, great floods of the reflected light pour out, swiftly and indefinitely, into space. Imagine, then, a man moving out into space more rapidly than light, his face turned toward the earth. Flashing through the void at, let us say, a million miles a second, he would (if we can overlook the dispersion of the rays of light) overtake in succession the light that fell on the French Revolution, the Reformation, the Norman Conquest, and the faces of the ancient empires. He would read, in reverse order, the living history of man and whatever lay before the coming of man.

Author: Joseph McCabe
ISBN-10: 153323891X
ISBN-13: 9781533238917
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2016
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d