Summary Of Wart: Moving Up The Evolutionary Scale

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Moving up the evolutionary scale; with each new transformation, the reader sees Wart experience everything on the "Chain of Being", from stone to trees to human.

Moving up the evolutionary scale, the reader sees Wart, with each new transformation, experience everything on the "Chain of Being", from stone to trees to human.

Moving up the evolutionary scale with each new transformation, Wart experiences everything on the "Chain of Being", from stone to trees to human.

Moving up the evolutionary scale with each new transformation, the reader sees Wart experience everything on the "Chain of Being", from stone to trees to

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