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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 764, 14 August 1894, Page 4

The ascent of man and of society is bound up henceforth with the conflict, the intensification, and the diffusion of the struggle for the life of others. This is the further evolution ; the page of history that lies before us, the closing act of the drama of man. The struggle may be short or long, but by all scientific analogy the result is sure. All the other kingdoms of Nature were completed ; evolution always attains ; always rounds off its work, ft spent an eternity over the earth, but finished it. It struggled for a millienniums to bring the vegetable kingdom up to the flowering plants, aud atttned. In the animal kingdom up to the flowering plants, and attained. In the animal kingdom it never paused until the possibilities of organisation it never paused until the possibilities of organisation were exhausted in the Mammalia. Kindled by this past, man may surely say, ‘ 1 shall arrive.’ The succession cannot break. The further evolution must go on, the higher kingdon come—first the blade, where we are today; then the ear, where wo shall be tomorrow ; then the full corn In the ear, which awaits our children’s children, and which we live to hasten.—Professor Druiumoud.