NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



from the animal kingdom to the 

 kingdom of the natural man,* so 

 now he steps from the kingdom of 

 the natural man to the kingdom 

 of the spiritual man, every portion 

 of this step a natural process sub- 

 ject to critical scientific analysis, 

 if that analysis goes deep enough, 

 wide enough, far enough. It is 

 the continuance of evolution with- 

 out a break, without a leap (" Na- 

 ture never makes leaps," says 

 Leibnitz ; the leaps are only seem- 

 ing), lifting the race by a new 

 birth through Christ, the type- 

 life, up to the plane of spiritual 

 being and knowing. 



Is the visible second coming of 

 Jesus fancy or truth? Increasing 

 multitudes to-day believe it true. 



* This is simply a name ; both king- 

 doms, that of the natural man and that 

 of the spiritual man, are in harmony 

 with the laws of sequence. 

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