Name: The Story of Evolution
Author: Joseph McCabe
ISBN: 978-1419183850

The Story of Evolution

By Joseph McCabe 11 May, 2020

Written in the early 1900's and there have been many discoveries since that time but the concepts are strong. Laid out from the Big Bang to modern man and the evolution of everything from plants to animals. 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. Less

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