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are so often captivating. It is the same 

 now, after thirty -six years of copious 

 argument and exposition. Darwin ridi- 

 culed the idea which some entertained 

 that Natural Selection "was set up as 

 an active power or deity " ; yet this is 

 the very conception of it which is at this 

 moment set up by one of the most faith- 

 ful worshippers in the Darwinian Cult. 

 Professor Poulton of Oxford gives to 

 Natural Selection the title of "a motive 

 power" first discovered by Darwin. 

 This development is perfectly intelligible. 

 Nature is the old traditional refuge for 

 all who will not see the work of creative 

 mind. Everything that is everything 

 that happens is and happens naturally. 

 Nature personified does, and is, our all 

 in all. She is the universal agent, and 

 at the same time the universal product. 

 What she does she may easily be con- 

 ceived as choosing to do, or selecting to 



