NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



series of development from the 

 mineral world up to the new crea- 

 ture in Christ Jesus. There is 

 nothing in this last development 

 contrary to nature; it follows 

 along exactly the same laws of 

 natural unfoldment as did the 

 other kingdoms. The law of con- 

 tinuity holds.* Christ is born 



* Alfred Russell Wallace, who was 

 joint discoverer with Darwin of evolu- 

 tion, and is its greatest living expo- 

 nent, in his book "Darwinism," p. 474, 

 shows the fallacy as to new causes in- 

 volving any breach of continuity — these 

 new causes embracing vegetable life, 

 animal life, and the higher powers of 

 man. He says, pp. 475 and 476: 



" These faculties [the higher powers 

 of the natural man] could not possibly 

 have been developed by means of the 

 same laws which have determined the 

 progressive development of the organic 

 world in general, and also of man's 

 physical organism. . . . Still more 

 surely can we refer to it [the spiritual 

 world] those progressive manifestations 

 of life in the vegetable, the animal, and 

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