368 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



have seen, those who study it most deeply and philo- 

 sophically are driven to go behind it in the search 

 after a true cause. . . . For clearly the develop- 

 ment under fixed laws and gradual process of the 

 organic world, no more prevents the original creative 

 and directive Idea from being the true Cause of all, 

 than the passing of the individual being through all 

 stages of embryonic existence from the simple cell, 

 makes it less the creature of the Supreme Hand. 

 That the archetypal idea of the Creative Mind may 

 fulfill itself equally, whether it act directly or 

 through intermediate gradations, we can see clearly 

 not only by abstract theory but by experience of our 

 own ' creations.' " ' 



1 " Some Lights of Science on the Faith," by Alfred Barry, 

 D.D., D.C.L., pp. in and 112. 



