Heredity, Variation and Genius: With Essay on Shakspeare Testimonied in His Own Bringingsforth, and Address on Medicine, Present and Prospective (Clas

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Excerpt from Heredity, Variation and Genius: With Essay on Shakspeare Testimonied in His Own Bringingsforth, and Address on Medicine, Present and Prospective The period during which organic life has been evolving on this planet is difierently estimated. Most experts agree that it was from 100 to 200 million years, while some assign more than double that time. A German scientist, taking the lowest computation, has in imagination reduced the 100 million years to a day, assigning the proper proportion of hours and minutes to the successive geological periods. According to that estimate the human period would be two minutes, and if the historic period be estimated at years it would be five seconds of the imagined day and the Christian period in that case two seconds. All too brief a period, plead Christian apologists, to fulfil its destined function of regenerating mankind, when account is taken of the many million years during which count less millions of the race died unregenerate, unwitting of the transcendent event of its future redemption and powerless to profit by it. 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.