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ence ; and Ave may confidently believe with our greatest living 



poet — 



That life is not as idle ore, 



But iron dug from central gloom, 



And heated hot with burning fears, 

 And dipt in baths of hissing tears, 



And batter'd vnth. the shocks of doom 



To shape and use. 



« 

 We thus find that the Darwinian theory, even when 



carried out to its extreme logical conclusion, not only does not 



ojipose, but lends a decided support to, a belief in the spiritual 



nature of man. It shows us how man's body may have been 



developed from that of a lower animal form under the law of 



natural selection ; but it also teaches us that we possess 



intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so 



developed, but must have had another origin ; and for this 



origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen 



universe of Spirit. ^ 



