The Destiny of Man. 25 



the Copernican astronomy, so with the 

 Darwinian biology, we rise to a higher 

 view of the workings of God and of the 

 nature of Man than was ever attainable 

 before. So far from degrading Humanity, 

 or putting it on a level with the animal 

 world in general, the Darwinian theory 

 shows us distinctly for the first time how 

 the creation and the perfecting of Man is 

 the goal toward which Nature's work has 

 all the while been tending. It enlarges 

 tenfold the significance of human life, 

 places it upon even a loftier eminence 

 than poets or prophets have imagined, and 

 makes it seem more than ever the chief 

 object of that creative activity which is 

 manifested in the physical universe. 



