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evolution, a clear declaration of general principles, 

 and a broad outline of nature's methods. Evolution 

 was a new explanation of cosmogeny, based on. per- 

 manent natural laws, wherein fickle, man-made gods 

 and demons played no part. 



Here, for the first time, the hope and the firm be- 

 lief, so widely entertained in all stages of man's intel- 

 lectual apprenticeship, that the good, or creative, agents 

 would ultimately triumph over evil, was unconsciously 

 placed on a firm foundation. For we now see, what 

 was not so clearly perceived in the first excitement of 

 the discovery, that evolution has no meaning if it is not 

 a perpetual demonstration of the slow but cumulative 

 triumph of right, or creative forces. 



VII. Cooperation and Conveyance, or Mutual Service 



and Rightness, as Constructive Agencies 



in Evolution 



Any basic concept of cosmogeny, therefore, must 

 assume that there is some universal creative process 

 back of evolution, and should express that process in 

 comprehensive terms, applicable alike to physical, or- 

 ganic, social, and mental phenomena. 



Biologists, the chief exponents of evolution, are ac- 

 customed to think of organic evolution only, and of 

 that largely in terms of natural selection, mutations, 

 and germ plasma. But in the great domains of astron- 

 omy, geology, and chemistry, in science, religion, and 

 government, and in a host of other domains, all of 

 which are the products of evolution, these terms are 

 inadequate, or do not aptly apply. Natural selection 

 "and the survival of the fittest are perhaps the broad- 



