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ence; and we may confidently believe with our greatest living 
poet— 
That life is not as idle ore, 
But iron dug from central gloom, 
And heated hot with burning fears, 
And dipt in baths of hissing tears, 
And batter’d with the shocks of doom 
To shape and use. 
We thus find that the Darwinian theory, even when 
carried out to its extreme logical conclusion, not only does not 
oppose, but lends a decided support to, a belief in the spiritual 
nature of man. It shows us how man’s body may have been 
developed from that of a lower animal form under the law of 
natural selection; but it also teaches us that we possess 
intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so 
developed, but must have had another origin; and for this 
origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen 
universe of Spirit. 
