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given form, may be considered as one grand resultant. Environment is 

 thus a power making at first for digestion and reproduction, then for mus- 

 cular strength and activity, then for shrewdness, finally for unselfishness 

 and righteousness. An ultimate tk power, not ourselves, making for right- 

 eousness," a personality. Our knowledge of this personality may be valid, 

 even though very incomplete. Religion. Conformity to the spiritual in 

 or behind environment is likeness to God. The conservative tendency in 

 evolution. 



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CONFORMITY TO ENVIRONMENT 177 



Human environment. The development of the family as the school of 

 man's training. The family as the school of unselfishness and obedience. 

 The family as the basis of social life. Society as an aid to conformity 

 to environment by increasing intelligence and training conscience. Mental 

 and moral heredity. Personal magnetism. Man's search for a king. 

 The essence of Christianity. Conformity to environment gives future 

 supremacy, but often at the cost of present hardship. Conformity as 

 obedience to the laws of our being. Environment best understood through 

 the study of the human mind. Productiveness and prospectiveness of 

 vital capital. Faith. 



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 MAN 210 



Composed of atoms and molecules, hence subject to chemical and physi- 

 cal laws. As a living being. As an animal. As a vertebrate. As a 

 mammal. As a social being. As a personal and moral being. The con- 

 flict between the higher and the lower in man. As a religious being. As 

 hero. He has not yet attained. Future man. He will utilize all his 

 powers, duly subordinating the lower to the higher. The triumph of the 

 common people. 



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THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE 241 



Subject of the Bible. Man: Body, intellect, heart. God: Law, sin, 

 and penalty. God manifested in Christ. Salvation, the divine life per- 

 meating man. Faith. Prayer. Hope. The Church. The battle. The 

 victory. The crown. 



