Out of the Miocene
by John Charles Beecham
When Bruce Dayton wanders off the trails in the high plains of the American Southwest, he
stumbles upon an old-timer who sends Bruce’s mind back to Miocene times and into the
body of an apeman who had an earlier usage of the same soul as Bruce.
— Michael Main
We are atoms in two oceans, time and space. Walk from here to the forest yonder, and your
corporal self passes through a portion of space. Each moment you live you pass through a
portion of the ocean of time. But the progression is only one way—for the corporal
body. With the spirit it is different. Time has no boundaries for it. Out of the
infinite, into the infinite, it comes and it goes. It is one with the Eternal. Therein
Moses was right.
Out of the Miocene by John Charles Beecham,
serialized in the Popular Magazine, 23 August and 1 October 1914.