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child-life. It was expanded in the relationship between 

 master and man, b}^ the abolition of slavery. It closed 

 up the breach between them, and destroyed the natural 

 hatred among nations ; or, as it is described, Jesus broke 

 down the partition wall between Jew and Gentile, for 

 Christianity regards all men as brothers in Christ. 



It is the beneficent Gesta Christi to which we look 

 for all this and much more. Natural Selection, which 

 has nothing whatever to do with the origination or the 

 development of anything, could never do anything of 

 itself. It was Christ who poured this Spirit of Love 

 upon the world. In His short life on earth the funda- 

 mental principles of all true spiritual religion were 

 founded. No further developments are needed or pos- 

 sible. Christianity is Fvial. 



(6) In this paragraph the Rationalist takes credit 

 for what is really due to Christ. It is perfectly true that 

 when Christ came, Greece and Rome were sunk in 

 ignorance, immorality and crime ; but it was the leaven 

 of Christ's teaching that in time brought about a revolu- 

 tion in these things. It was by the example of all that 

 was pure, good, loving and noble as seen first in Jesus 

 Christ, and afterwards in the followers and martyrs that 

 won heathendom from vice and immorality. It is due 

 to this and not to Rationalism that the " average ethical 

 standard is higher than it has ever been before ". 



(7) In this paragraph we have a good example of 

 the common fallacy about the " race ". Like the terms 

 genus, " crowd," " congregation," a race is only a word to 

 stand for a multiplication of the individual. Thus a pug 

 dog is an individual, all pug dogs form a " race " or 

 " breed ". 



The Church of England limits a "congregation" to 

 three individuals. 



