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ures before he achieves a complete success. His first 

 rude steam-engine is exhibited that workmen may 

 follow the slow steps of progress, and see how far me- 

 chanical skill has advanced by gradual improvement; 

 how the idea has been by degrees more fully explicated 

 .and the difficulties of adjustment overcome. It is in 

 the likeness of human progress reaching achievement 

 through failure, that the evolutionist pourtrays the 

 advance in nature from lower to higher organizations. 

 The failures are buried, the successes survive. 



To conceive the cosmic process as an endless weav- 

 ing, out of a uniform, homogeneous first matter, the 

 myriad forms of design traceable in the universe, is an 

 unfounded representation of the course of things. We 

 maintain, on the contrary, that however the pattern 

 may be involved or evolved, however this particular 

 form or that may grow out of or run into other forms, 

 the design is along the whole course of time various, 

 manifold. We are free to hold in the face of science 

 that creation is special, as well as general that there 

 have been beginnings within the cosmos as well as 

 continuous operation that the continuity of one cease- 

 less and unvarying movement is possible to thought 

 only by transcending the visible and finding it in 

 the forth-going of energy from the unseen. Unifica- 

 tion is attainable not by knowledge, but through faith. 

 The unity is in God ; the uniformity in His law ; the 

 continuity in His purpose. When man transcends the 

 visible to account for ah origin or change ; when he 



