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does not yet shade off into the organic. Similarly, 

 some evolutionists, like A. Wallace, 1 believe that 

 there is another gap between man regarded as a 

 material organization, and the highest of the brute 

 creation. But whether these gaps are bridged over, 

 as they probably will be, or not, the theologian 

 qua theologian has nothing to do with the matter. 

 Whether God's creative power proceeds by steps or 

 " levels of creation," instead of by an inclined plane 

 within the limits specified by the terms "original 

 creation" and " creatianism," is a matter, not for 

 theology, but for science to determine. 



Those of us who are interested in the progress of 

 science look forward eagerly to the time when the 

 " breaks " on which some people base their theology 

 will disappear, because at present these " breaks " 

 in the chain are so many gaps in our knowledge of 

 a process which we believe can be rationalized, i.e. 

 made intelligible to reason. But as at the one end 

 of the chain the fact of Creation meets us and 

 baffles us, defying any attempts to rationalize it, 

 for it does not really make creation intelligible 

 to say that it is mutatio a non esse ad esse? so 

 at the other end of the chain the existence of 

 man as a being in whom God dwells, whose 

 "soul," as we call it, has communion with God, 

 whose nature has been in the Incarnation taken 



1 Natural Selection, pp. 332, et seq. 

 * Duns Scotus, vol. v. p. 461, tc. 



