CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



ance, this reference, are themselves here and now in process 

 of evolution. In daily life they sustain worthy endeavour. 

 They may rise from lower to higher. 



We speak of this kind of advance in human life as illustra- 

 ting nearer approach, with joy under guidance, to truth, 

 beauty, goodness, and above all, to love and good will. Here 

 mind in evolution reaches its highest expression. And even if 

 it be part of our belief that we are thus in touch with the 

 eternal verities, it may also be part of our belief that closer 

 approach to their realisation in human affairs is seen in that 

 progressive process in time which we call evolution. 



REFERENCES 



Those who are interested in the line of treatment followed in the 

 first part of this article may consult Professor A. N. Whitehead's 

 "Science and the Modern World," General Smuts' "Holism and 

 Evolution," and my Gilford Lectures on "Emergent Evolution," and 

 "Life, Mind and Spirit." 



"The world has been evolved, not (specially) created; it has arisen, 

 little by little, from a small beginning at an almighty word. What a sub- 

 lime idea of the Infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all 

 causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare 

 the Infinite it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of 

 effects than to produce the eflFects themselves." — Erasmus Darwin (Grand- 

 father of Charles Darwin). 



"It is absolutely certain that we are in the presence of an Infinite Eternal 

 Energy from which all things proceed." — Herbert Spencer. 



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