SAPPING THE SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS 



brief, to the conclusion that everything would be 

 permitted, everything allowable. 



Without soul, without God, man were but a 

 brute among his fellow brutes. Who then could 

 demand from him obedience to any law save that 

 of fear only? Who then could ask of him the 

 observance of any code of morality, save self- 

 interest. The gratification of his instincts, when 

 not prevented by outward force or peril, would 

 be his only law. We would in fact be obliged to 

 proceed much further, and deny him all freedom 

 of will, as the materialists have most consistently 

 done. With the cessation of free will all ac- 

 countability is gone. Punishments and rewards 

 are then both absurdities, as certain materialistic 

 sociologists entirely admit, and as all should admit 

 if they were logical. There can be no patriotism, 

 no loyalty, no virtue, no crime. The moral order 

 would have come to its end. 



Such, then, would be the fate of a world blind- 

 ing its eyes to the evidence of the truth, and with 

 the fool exclaiming in its heart: "There is no 

 God." The law of the jungle could be the only 

 law of the land and the law of the nations in their 

 dealing with each other. We have gone a great 

 way in this direction. We must go the full length 

 if we would accept as^true the basis of most 

 modern sociology, which is nothing else than ma- 

 terialistic evolution. 



There are two kinds of evolutionary theories, 



