I.
Through millions of ages, by countless
efforts to satisfy his wants, to gratify his passions, his appetites, man
slowly developed his brain, changed two of his feet into hands and forced into the
darkness of his brain a few gleams and glimmerings of reason. Hews hindered by
ignorance, by fear, by mistakes, and he advanced only as he found the truth the
absolute facts. Through countless years he has groped and crawled and struggled
and climbed and stumbled toward the light....
