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yet assuredly signifying, still and always, struggle. If 

 it be true that ultimately the whole race is " a moral 

 organism," that " we are members one of another," that 

 the highest and most advanced need the welfare of 

 the most backward, that fact is a spiritual truth. We 

 must not look to find it in nature ; we must not 

 localise it in part of nature, and call this the moral part 

 in contrast to the remainder, which is immoral or wicked. 

 Nature is the presupposition of reason and morality, but 

 reason and morality work up the whole of nature's raw 

 material, not the half merely. 



As against Huxley, Drummond seems to have been 

 right. As against Darwin, he did not formulate any 

 scientific difference. The same facts are in the view of 

 both the same facts differently stated and emphasised. 

 To make a decisive advance, Drummond needed a more 

 adequate philosophical schooling. He intended to vindi- 

 cate all nature for God. Constantly he seems to be 

 vindicating only a section, though perhaps a growing 

 section. That position is of no possible interest to 

 Christian theism. 



