The Destiny of Man. 23 



vance. That simple but wasteful process 

 of survival of the fittest, through which 

 such marvellous things have come into be- 

 ing, has little about it that is analogous to 

 the ingenuity of human art. The infinite 

 and eternal Power which is thus revealed 

 in the physical life of the universe seems 

 in nowise akin to the human soul. The 

 idea of beneficent purpose seems for the 

 moment to be excluded from nature, and a 

 blind process, known as Natural Selection, 

 is the deity that slumbers not nor sleeps. 

 Reckless of good and evil, it brings forth 

 at once the mother's tender love for her 

 infant and the horrible teeth of the raven- 

 ing shark, and to its creative indifference 

 the one is as good as the other. 



In spite of these appalling arguments the 

 man of science, urged by the single-hearted 

 purpose to ascertain the truth, be the con- 

 sequences what they may, goes quietly on 

 and finds that the terrible theory must be 

 adopted; the fact of man's consanguinity 

 with dumb beasts must be admitted. In 



