The Overcontrol of Evolution

65:5.1It was a source of re­gret to the Life Car­ri­ers that our spe­cial ef­forts to mod­ify in­tel­li­gent life on Uran­tia should have been so hand­i­capped by tragic per­ver­sions be­yond our con­trol: the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal and the Adamic de­fault.

65:5.2But through­out all of this bi­o­logic ad­ven­ture our great­est dis­ap­point­ment grew out of the re­ver­sion of cer­tain prim­i­tive plant life to the prechloro­phyll lev­els of par­a­sitic bac­te­ria on such an ex­ten­sive and un­ex­pected scale. This even­tu­al­ity in plant-life evo­lu­tion caused many dis­tress­ful dis­eases in the higher mam­mals, par­tic­u­larly in the more vul­ner­a­ble hu­man species. When we were con­fronted with this per­plex­ing sit­u­a­tion, we some­what dis­counted the dif­fi­cul­ties in­volved be­cause we knew that the sub­se­quent ad­mix­ture of the Adamic life plasm would so re­in­force the re­sist­ing pow­ers of the re­sult­ing blended race as to make it prac­ti­cally im­mune to all dis­eases pro­duced by the veg­etable type of or­gan­ism. But our hopes were doomed to dis­ap­point­ment ow­ing to the mis­for­tune of the Adamic de­fault.

65:5.3The uni­verse of uni­verses, in­clud­ing this small world called Uran­tia, is not be­ing man­aged merely to meet our ap­proval nor just to suit our con­ve­nience, much less to grat­ify our whims and sat­isfy our cu­rios­ity. The wise and all-pow­er­ful be­ings who are re­spon­si­ble for uni­verse man­age­ment un­doubt­edly know ex­actly what they are about; and so it be­comes Life Car­ri­ers and be­hooves mor­tal minds to en­list in pa­tient wait­ing and hearty co-op­er­a­tion with the rule of wis­dom, the reign of power, and the march of prog­ress.

65:5.4There are, of course, cer­tain com­pen­sa­tions for tribu­la­tion, such as Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. But ir­re­spec­tive of all such con­sid­er­a­tions, the later ce­les­tial super­vi­sors of this planet ex­press com­plete con­fi­dence in the ul­ti­mate evo­lu­tion­ary tri­umph of the hu­man race and in the even­tual vin­di­ca­tion of our orig­i­nal plans and life pat­terns.