I2O Contemporary Evolution. 



speedily be reversed, as Switzerland and Germany are 

 beginning to show us. The missions of the Greeks and 

 Latins with regard to the Church being mainly fulfilled, 

 the vigorous Teutonic race has now to promote its peaceful 

 triumph through individual energy in the arena of civic 

 freedom. 



"Judging then of the future by the past, changes to 

 come will but bring out more and more the Church's true 

 nature by gathering in the latent Catholicity of separated 

 bodies, and by sloughing off such unworthy members as 

 have, in the past, been retained in it by sloth, ignorance, 

 or interest. It will thus necessarily become more and 

 more conspicuous for the holiness of its members as com- 

 pared with such of the population as is avowedly pagan 

 and unbelieving. As the process of evolution has gone 

 on from the inorganic world to the organic, from the 

 vegetable to the animal, and from the simplest form of 

 sentient life, through constantly increasing complexity, 

 till the hour struck for the introduction of a rational 

 animal into the world, so the evolution of humanity has 

 proceeded, and is proceeding, from direct and simple 

 conscious apprehensions to more and more reflex, self- 

 conscious, and complex comprehensions. And this applies 

 fully to the acceptance of the Christian Church. As it 

 has been, so it will be. Of time there is no stint. The 

 next glacial epoch is sufficiently remote. By the con- 

 tinuance, then, of this evolutionary process there is to be 



