Essays on Life 



from without as a potter models clay, it gives 

 us God as vivifying and indwelling in all His 

 creatures He in them, and they in Him. If 

 it refuses to see God outside the universe, it 

 equally refuses to see any part of the universe 

 as outside God. If it makes the universe the 

 body of God, it also makes God the soul of 

 the universe. The question at issue, then, 

 between the Darwinism of Erasmus Darwin 

 and the neo-Darwinism of his grandson, is not 

 a personal one, nor anything like a personal 

 one. It not only involves the existence of 

 evolution, but it affects the view we take of 

 life and things in an endless variety of most 

 interesting and important ways. It is im- 

 perative, therefore, on those who take any 

 interest in these matters, to place side by side 

 in the clearest contrast the views of those who 

 refer the evolution of species mainly to ac- 

 cumulation of variations that have no other 

 inception than chance, and of that older 

 school which makes design perceive and de- 

 velop still further the goods that chance pro- 

 vides. 



But over and above this, which would be in 



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