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death struggle from which sympathy and the spirit 

 of brotherhood are eHminated. It is transforming the 

 industrial world into a slaughter-house. 



Benjamin Kidd, in a masterful work, entitled, ** The 

 Science of Power," points out how Darwinism fur- 

 nished Neitzsche with a scientific basis for his godless 

 system of philosophy and is demoralizing industry. 



He also quotes eminent English scientists to support 

 the last charge in the indictment, namely, that Darwin- 

 ism robs the reformer of hope. Its plan of operation 

 is to improve the race by *' scientific breeding '* on a 

 purely physical basis. A few hundred years may be 

 required — possibly a few thousand — but what is time 

 to one who carries eons in his quiver and envelopes his 

 opponents in the *' Mist of Ages " ? 



Kidd w^ould substitute the '' Emotion of the Ideal " 

 for scientific breeding and thus shorten the time nec- 

 essary for the triumph of a social reform. He counts 

 one or two generations as sufHcient. This is an enor- 

 mxous advance over Darwin's doctrine, but Christ's 

 plan is still more encouraging. A man can be bom 

 again; the springs of life can be cleansed instantly so 

 that the heart loves the things that it formerly hated 

 and hates the things that it once loved. If this is true 

 of one, it can be true of any mimher. Thus, a nation 

 can be born in a day if the ideals of the people can be 

 changed. 



Many have tried to harmonize Darwinism with the 

 Bible, but these efforts, while honest and sometimes 

 even agonizing, have not been successful. How could 

 they be when the natural and inevitable tendency of 



