Evolution and Faith 



* strong in will 

 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,' 



cherishing the good that falls in our way, and 

 bearing the evil in and around us, with stout 

 hearts set on diminishing it. So far we all may 

 strive in one faith toward one hope : 



* It may be that the gulfs will wash us down. 

 It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, 



but something ere the end. 



Some work of noble note may yet be done.' " 



A briefer and more profound description of 

 the fittest was written by a great thinker almost 

 two thousand years ago. He had pondered on 

 the history of his nation, and especially of its 

 greatest leaders. He marshals a glorious array 

 of great souls. There are patriarchs and 

 prophets, berserkers and statesmen, men of dif- 

 ferent times and civilizations, leaders in war and 

 in peace, differing altogether in wealth, social 

 position, mental traits and endowments — all 

 heroes. Beneath all these vast differences he 

 finds one essential, fundamental agreement, the 

 common root of all their forms of greatness. 

 He states it as follows: 



'' All these died in faith, not having received 



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