ii2 NO STRUGGLE NO SELECTION 



Thus to tliis sect of Darwin's followers, man, giving 

 in his moral being allegiance to an imaginary infinite 

 intelligence, is a mere cellular aggregate, cunningly 

 constructed by Nature to believe what is not, to be 

 the dupe of inwoven falsehoods, and amazing thought 

 to be raised in the scale of creation by becoming 

 the victim of Nature's mendacity. For my part, I am 

 content to believe that life is earnest, life is real ; that 

 an all-important reality is at the back of conscience 

 and of man's sense of duty, truth, and righteousness, 

 and provides them with a rational sanction. The 

 position of the sect of which I have spoken is, 

 however, in reference to Darwin's theory, severely 

 logical. 



There can be no half-way resting-place between it 

 and the belief that man's moral nature has a sub- 

 stantial basis in the spiritual realities of the universe. 

 Darwin having no belief in the spiritual world or in 

 the Divine origin of the laws of Nature, was prepared, 

 upon reading Malthus, to extend his doctrine of misery 

 to all living creatures, and to make it the foundation 

 of his evolutional system, 



