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the capacities of the principle of life itself, and we 

 hear of &quot;the response to environment,&quot; and so 

 on. In any case, and however worded, the ex 

 pressions indicate the existence of the fact that 

 higher and more vigorous forms of life exhibit 

 a constant and unvarying tendency to subdue 

 and displace those of lower vitality. The &quot;law 

 of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,&quot; once more, 

 follows, while surpassing, the natural order; but 

 in surpassing the natural, the spiritual divides 

 itself off from it in a radical and decisive manner. 

 The natural works blindly, subduing and displac 

 ing everything that is weaker and in the way; the 

 spiritual exercises, as it were, a faculty of moral 

 discrimination, subduing and displacing that, no 

 matter how strong which is evil, strengthening 

 and developing that, no matter how weak, which 

 is morally sound and good. This is the Christian 

 principle of expulsion. 



These three, therefore, the principle of ex 

 pression, the principle of expansion, and the 

 principle of expulsion, being essential elements 

 of the inexorable law of the Christ life; are, of 

 necessity, of fundamental obligation upon His 

 followers, as individual Christians; as sharers in 

 the corporate privileges and responsibilities of 

 His body the Church; as those who are the par 

 takers of, and therefore the trustees for, the 

 abundant life which He brought into the world. 

 The School of When the Apostles passed from the School of 

 Instruction into that of the Apostolic Message 

 they were lacking in two respects : 



