49^ MAN IN NATURE 



philosophy of nature which it contains. When He points to 

 the common weeds of the fields, and asks us to consider the 

 garments more gorgeous than those of kings in which God 

 has clothed them, and when He says of these same wild 

 flowers, so daintily made by the Supreme Artificer, that to-day 

 they are, and to-morrow are cast into the oven. He gives us 

 not merely a lesson of faith, but a deep insight into that want 

 of unison which, centring in humanity, reaches all the way 

 from the wild flower to the God who made it, and requires 

 for its rectification nothing less than the breathing of that 

 Divine Spirit which first evoked order and life out of primeval 

 chaos. 



References : — Articles in Princeton Review on Man in Nature and on 

 Evolution. "The Story of the Earth and Man." London, 

 1890. *' Modern Ideas of Evolution." London, 1891. Nature as an 

 Educator. Canadian Record of Science^ 1890. 



