1 66 EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 



the inorganic world and rising by wonderful 

 gradations to its climax in man, constitutes for 

 the Christian the great beauty of the universe 

 that God has made. Similarity amid endless 

 variety is the triumph of art. In itself, there- 

 fore, this similarity of design in nature gives us 

 not the slightest clue to the manner in which this 

 surpassing work was accomplished, whether by a 

 process of slow evolution according to Divinely 

 given laws, or by sudden saltations equally pro- 

 vided for in the Providence of the Infinite Maker, 

 or by direct creation to a greater or more limited 

 extent. 'Similarity in the design of the work of 

 the Six Days proves an Omnipotent Designer, and 

 renders only more hopeless the unproved asser- 

 tions of evolutionary materialism. 



Similarity in bodily structure between man and 

 the purely animal world leaves untouched that es- 

 sential difference, the rational human soul. There 

 is a chasm here which no theory of evolution can 

 bridge. Apart from all religion, the science of 

 psychology teaches us to reflect upon our own 

 spiritual activities and so to attain to an under- 

 standing of man's rational soul, simple and spirit- 

 ual. The brute cannot pass beyond sense per- 

 ceptions; it can form no abstract thought. It is 

 without reason, and therefore without language, 

 without science, without religion. Ten million 

 years cannot evolve these out of brute instinct. 

 Man alone is capable of all these, and is able to 



