A WAIF AND ITS ADOPTION 



threw the theological creator out of his own 

 creation, it seemed that the Mosaic conception 

 of the universe had reached the limits of its 

 adaptation. But Kant, who had been most in- 

 strumental in defeating it, did his best to save 

 it, and theology grasped eagerly at the Kantian 

 straws. Then Lamarck and Darwin came along 

 and demonstrated that species were not individ- 

 ual creations, but forms of evolution. Ortho- 

 doxy first had the same stereotyped answer ready 

 and then transformed the Mosaic god into a god 

 of modern evolution. Then it was found that 

 life itself was a product of cosmic evolution. 

 There was no other refuge left for the theological 

 creator but man's supposed supernatural " soul." 

 This, at least, theology said, was a creation of 

 God. But Haeckel, Dietzgen, and Loeb have 

 swept the last theological cobwebs out of this 

 hiding place by identifying the human soul with 

 the evolutionary processes of the material uni- 

 verse. 



Nevertheless, orthodoxy in the disguise of 

 metaphysics and " true " religion, continues to 

 dodge around in the old way, to rest on its 

 unproven assertions as though they had been 

 established by the most painstaking and irrefut- 

 able work of science, to sneer at the results 



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