CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



language, to a power of forming general ideas, to greater 

 uprightness of body and mind; and it is very important to 

 realise that a steady advance in brain development, on a line 

 different from that of other mammals, is discernible in the 

 very first monkeyish animals. Man stands apart and is in 

 important ways unique, but he was not an abruptly created 

 novelty. That is not the way in which evolution works. 

 Man, at his best, is a flower on a shoot that has very deep 

 roots. What the evolutionist discloses is man's solidarity, 

 his kinship, with the rest of creation. And the encourage- 

 ment we find in this disclosure is twofold. In the first place, 

 though we inherit some coarse strands from pre-human pedi- 

 gree, it is an ascent, not a descent that we see behind us. 

 In the second place, the evolutionist world is congruent 

 with religious interpretation. It is a world in which the 

 religious man can breathe freely. To take one example: 

 there are great trends discernible in organic evolution, and 

 the greatest of these are toward health and beauty: toward 

 the love of mates, parental care, and family affection; toward 

 self-subordination and kin-sympathy; toward clear-headed- 

 ness and healthy-mindedness; and the momentum of these 

 trends is with us at our best. And evolution, with these 

 great trends, is going on: Who shall set it limits? 



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Clodd, Edward. Story of Creation. 



Conn, H. W. Method of Creation. 1900. 



Conn, H. W. Method of Evolution. 



Geddes, Patrick, and Thomson, J. Arthur. Evolution. Home 



University Library. I911. Geology. Home University Library. 



1926. 

 Haeckel, Ernst. Natural History of Creation. 1870. 

 Jordan, D. S., and Kellogg, V. L. Evolution and Animal Life, 



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