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scheme, but death is the price of adaptation. The same theme runs 

 through our conceptions of the spiritual life. There is the same 

 duality, evolution adapting its scheme to the exigencies of the 

 physical world, the good principle ever in conflict with the evil, and 

 at times compelled to adapt itself to attain its ends. There is the 

 tale of adaptation in the one case and of sacrifice in the other, and 

 success is reached in both. 



