The Destiny of Man. 



their exercise is enlarged. And thus at 

 length we see what human progress means. 

 It means throwing off the brute-inherit- 

 ance, gradually throwing it off through 

 ages of struggle that are by and by to 

 .make struggle needless. Man is slowly 

 passing from a primitive social state in 

 which he was little better than a brute, 

 toward an ultimate social state in which 

 his character shall have become so trans- 

 formed that nothing of the brute can be de- 

 tected in it. The ape and the tiger in hu- 

 man nature will become extinct. Theology 

 has had much to say about original sin. 

 This original sin is neither more nor less 

 than the brute -inheritance which every 

 man carries with him, and the process of 

 evolution is an advance toward true salva- 

 tion. Fresh value is thus added to human 

 life. The modern prophet, employing the 

 methods of science, may again proclaim 

 that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

 Work ye, therefore, early and late, to pre- 

 pare its coming. 



