The Logic of Evohttion 



glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." Criti- 

 cise the definition as you will, it recognized and 

 furnished a chief end. The greatest and most 

 widespread danger is that we shall pursue no 

 chief end in life, but only a multitude of means. 

 Life without any chief end worthy of the name 

 necessarily remains low and weak. It really un- 

 folds none of its powers. All its energies dissi- 

 pate like steam from an open vessel. This is 

 death. 



We can make the higher powers subserve the 

 lower, follow honesty because it Is the best pol- 

 icy, be or seem religious because it Is respect- 

 able, serve God with our eyes fixed on the main 

 chance, and grow cross-eyed thereby. This Is 

 repeating the experiment of the. parasite or ses- 

 sile form on a higher plane where the ruin is 

 more sure and complete. It can have but one 

 end — degeneration. 



** A house divided against Itself cannot 

 stand." It will not long remain divided. If 

 pulled by two tendencies. It will follow the one 

 or the other. It will become all slave or all free. 

 What Mr. Lincoln saw to be true of the Union 

 Is equally true of the life of every individual. 

 He will inevitably follow the higher motive or 



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