NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



as the babe enters into the king- 

 dom of the natural man. Every 

 new creature grows up from the 

 grave of the old. Up the stairs 

 of holy patience we climb the 

 heights of the inner kingdom. 

 Our will henceforth is to yield 

 our will, but the sensuous man 

 contests every inch with the spiri- 

 tual. The perishing of the old 

 man day by day is painful, and so 

 is the renewal of the inner, for 

 birth also is painful. We learn 

 to love love, hate hate, and fear 

 only fear ; but every move upward 

 has in it birth-pangs. We are 

 in the soul's gymnasium — on its 

 battle-field. The creature was 

 made subject to vanity for a 

 cause. * Says Ruskin : " I do not 



* " It is an inevitable deduction from 

 the hypothesis of evolution that races 

 of sentient creatures could have come 

 into existence under no other condi- 

 tions [than those of pains and pleas- 

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