Theosophy and Modern Thought

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Excerpt from Theosophy and Modern Thought: Four Lectures Delivered at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society, Held at Adyar, Madras, December, 1914 There is one idea that is woven in with the thought of the intelligent people of the world to-day, and it is evolution. Let us first try to grasp what evolution is. If we look at an elephant, a horse, a deer and a boar, we see that they are distinct types of creatures, having very little in common. Yet these, and others, we know are related (Fig.1). Bones have been dug up of the ancestral forms of these creatures, and by a study of them we know that long ago they were not so widely different as they are to-day. Zoologists tell us that far back in the Eocene age there existed the ancestral types out of which they have descended, these ancestral types (Condylarthra) not only differed less among themselves than do their descendants, but also there were fewer of them. 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.