?2 The Destiny of Man. 



ing from without ; and whatever theology 

 might suppose, no scientific reason could 

 be alleged why the same incalculable 

 Power might not at some future moment, 

 by a similar miracle, thrust upon the scene 

 some mightier creature in whose presence 

 Man would become like a sorry beast of 

 burden. But he who has mastered the 

 Darwinian theory, he who recognizes the 

 slow and subtle process of evolution as the 

 way in which God makes things come to 

 pass, must take a far higher view. He sees 

 that in the deadly struggle for existence 

 which has raged throughout countless 

 aeons of time, the whole creation has been 

 groaning and travailing together in order 

 to bring forth that last consummate speci- 

 men of God's handiwork, the Human Soul. 

 To the creature thus produced through 

 a change in the direction in which natural 

 selection has worked, the earth and most 

 of its living things have become gradually 

 subordinated. In all the classes of the 

 animal' and vegetal worlds many ancient 



