PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion of The Twentieth Centuryour planet, the star from which it emanatedcenturies ago, has become extinct in the meantime.Think of the immensity of space andvastness of the universe and conceive of thetime when these luminaries first appeared inthe heavens and compare your conception withthe stories of creation which you have learntfrom your childhood.The Geological researches of this centuryhave shown that the first appearanceof man onearth was not six thousand years ago, as theChristian Bible teaches, but in the Tertiaryperiod which goes way back beyond 50, 000 or100,000 years from to-day.Comparative Anatomy and Physiology haveproved that human organism was not the resultof a Special Creation as described in Genesis,but that it was closely related to the organismof the lower animals. It was the result of thegradual process of evolution from a lowerform to a higher one. Furthermore, it has beenscientifically demonstrated that the life-prin-5