Real Revolution

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Real Revolution — Page 60

60 rightly be called a buman being even in the most rudimentary sense as we know it, the utmost that could he said of him being no more than this that he represented a higher kind of brure animal life. . I might mention here that I do not believe that man has developed from some kind of an ape, and by the grace of God I can prove it. . Creation of Man on the Basis of a. Permanent Evolutin. It is, however, a fact that man's progress has followed a line of constant evolution. To begin with, he went through a phase of existence when he was no doubt a higher kind of being than the other current forms of animal life, but he bad not yet developed an entity that deserved to be given a life everlasting. When he rose a step higher from this stage, however, and his brain developed to an extent where he could be the bearer of a law, the first principle he was given was that he should live a corporate life along with others of his kind, under a chief to whom he should owe allegiance. The first law-' giver taught no more than an elementary form of worship, with emphasis on life in a common and social set up, under a chief who was to decide all matters on which disputes might happen to rise. . The name f this law-giver was Adam. . When we look at Adam from this point of