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theism or Materialism, or to make Evolution sub- 

 serve the cause of Atheism or Agnosticism, the result 

 has been that we have now a higher, a subtler, a 

 more comprehensive teleology than the world has 

 ever before known. We have a teleology which is 

 indissolubly linked with the teachings of revealed 

 truth ; a teleology which, while receiving light from 

 Evolution, illumines, in turn, this grand generaliza- 

 tion, and shows us that Evolution, when properly 

 understood, is a noble witness to a God who, unlike 

 the God of the older Deism, that " simply sets the 

 machine of the universe in motion, and leaves it to 

 work by itself," is, on the contrary, One who, in the 

 language of Holy Scripture, is not only " above all, 

 but through all, and in all." 



