EVOLUTION IN GENERAL. 



they had each discovered a law ; they whispered its 

 name. It was Evolution. Henceforth their work was 

 one, science was one, the world was one, and mind, 

 which discovered the oneness, was one. 



Such being the scope of the theory, it is essential that 

 for its interpretation this universal character be rec 

 ognized, and no phenomenon in nature or in human 

 nature be left out of the final reckoning. It is equally 

 clear that in making that interpretation we must begin 

 with the final product, Man. If Evolution can be 

 proved to include Man, the whole course of Evolution 

 and the whole scheme of Nature from that moment 

 assume a new significance. The beginning must then 

 be interpreted from the end, not the end from the 

 beginning. An engineering workshop is unintelligible 

 until we reach the room where the completed engine 

 stands. Everything culminates in that final product, 

 is contained in it, is explained by it. The Evolution of 

 Man is also the complement and corrective of all other 

 forms of Evolution. From this height only is there a 

 full view, a true perspective, a consistent world. The 

 whole mistake of naturalism has been to interpret 

 Nature from the stand-point of the atom to study 

 the machinery which drives this great moving world 

 simply as machinery, forgetting that the ship has any 

 passengers, or the passengers any captain, or the 

 captain any course. It is as^great a mistake, on 

 the other hand, for tnetheologian to separate off 

 the ship from the passengers as for the naturalist to 

 separate off the passengers from the ship. It is he 

 who cannot include Man among the links of Evolution 

 who has greatly to fear the theory of development. 

 In his jealousy for that religion which seems to him 



