The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: the science of evolution. Evolution was the key. It
gave the explanation, gave sanity to the pranks of this
atavistic brain of mine that, modern and normal, harked
back to a past so remote as to be contemporaneous with
the raw beginnings of mankind.
For in this past I know of, man, as we to-day know him,
did not exist. It was in the period of his becoming
that I must have lived and had my being.
CHAPTER III
The commonest dream of my early childhood was something
like this: It seemed that I was very small and that I
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