Organic Evolution 



past of Man, at one with Nature, and with a working creed 

 which Science could accept? 



''The answer is a simple one : We have it already. There 

 exists a religion which has anticipated all these requirements 

 — a religion which has been before the world these eighteen 

 hundred years, whose congruity with Nature and with Man 

 stands the tests at every point. Up to this time no word has 

 been spoken to reconcile Christianity with Evolution, or 

 Evolution with Christianity. And why? Because the two 

 are one. What is Evolution? A method of creation. What 

 is its object? To make more perfect living beings. Through 

 what does Evolution work? Through love. Through what 

 does Christianity work? Through love. Evolution and 

 Christianity have the same Author, the same end, the same 

 spirit. There is no rivalry between these processes. Chris- 

 tianity blended into the Evolutionary process with no noise 

 or shock; it upset nothing of all that had been done; it took 

 all the natural foundations precisely as it found them; it 

 adopted Man's body, mind and soul at the exact level where 

 Organic Evolution was at work upon them; it carried on the 

 building by slow and gradual modifications; and, through 

 processes governed by rational laws, it put the finishing 

 touches to the Ascent of Man." 



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