Coftfonnity to Environment 



effectual education, the young and Impressible 

 exposed and brought close to the contaglum of 

 a powerful life, not to a mere walking encyclo- 

 pedia of learning. It Is the central thought of 

 Christianity, no mere doctrine, creed, or law, but 

 a grand life so perfectly conformed to the un- 

 changeable and eternal that all the power of 

 the universe Is on Its side. 



Is It the central thought of evolution In a 

 grander and deeper sense than we have ventured 

 to suggest ? On the vaulted celling of the SIstlne 

 Chapel In Rome, Michael Angelo painted his 

 vision of the creation of man. A magnificent 

 half-recumbent human figure is rising as If just 

 awakened from sleep or unconsciousness, and Is 

 stretching out Its hand to reach the hand of 

 God held out to meet It. It Is a strange con- 

 ception of creation, but. If you wish to call It a 

 picture of human evolution — God reaching 

 down and life struggling up until the two can 

 clasp hands — many facts of science would find 

 their most adequate ultimate explanation In such 

 a view. 



