And Man--the Animal as other animals, lost like a needle in a haystack--ugly and soulless. The Animal with possibilities. Now look on Adam and on Eve, the first gleam of light gained by continuous suffering, not wounds in a free fight. And though Adam gained thus much from Eve, he never saw it, but treated her contemptuously--as through that very suffering and weakness his inferior. And that picture. Think of it, if you have any time for thought. The long, long ages back--the wild, illimitable forests, the jungles that obscured the pure blue sky, the savage, lustful sighs of the great lion, the whining growl of the sinuous tiger, the gliding, silent serpent, the animals innumerable, see how they come in phantom form before your eye. The wicked, impish monkey--most hideous perhaps of all--the subtle master-jest of Hell. And by the side of it--hidden, almost heartrendingly hidden--its savage, impish cousin Man--at present unknown--one among many animals. And look! One day, like Satan into Paradise, came Light--the Spirit of Light and Purity, with the magnet Heaven’s greatest scientists had taken years to mould, made to attract the weak spot--in the Hell-entangled maze. And the weak spot was Eve, and, through Eve, Adam. And so Eve brought suffering in the world, the real suffering, and thereby incurred Hell’s displeasure, and was thereby made the slave of man. Read Genesis, that little chapter Topsy Turvy, it explains it all. And what was Hell about to let the other spirits in? It had none of Heaven’s “man-theorised” omnipotence. It stood to fight the even fight, by skill and skill alone. So now you know a little about Eve. Has it tired you? Do you like her less because she once went about like a little monkey, instead of _à la_ Milton--I mean a monkey moderate-sized, of course--but they’re so ugly. And the spirit has done the rest. The spirit that Professor Drummond, one of God’s latter-day disciples, has learned plays such a great part in the world’s sad history. THE AFTERTHOUGHT