UNDER THE MAPLES 



value — the law of right, justice, mercy, honor, love. 



We do not look for the Golden Rule among 

 swine and cattle, or among wolves and sharks; 

 we look for it among men; we look for honor, for 

 heroism, for self-sacrifice, among men. None of 

 these things are involved in the Darwinian hy- 

 pothesis. There is no such thing as right or 

 wrong in the orders below man. These are purely 

 human distinctions. It is not wrong for the wolf 

 to eat the lamb, or the lamb to eat the grass, but 

 an aggressive war is wrong to the depths of the 

 farthest star. Germany's assault upon the peace 

 and prosperity of the world was a crime against 

 the very heavens. 



Darwin occupied himself only with the natural 

 evolution of organic forms, and not with the 

 evolution of human communities. He treated 

 man as an animal, and fitted him into the zoolog- 

 ical scheme. He removed him from the realm 

 of the miraculous into the plane of the natural. 

 For all purposes of biological discussion, man is 

 an animal, but that is not saying he is only an 

 animal, and still under the law of animal evolu- 

 tion. The European man is supposed to have 

 passed the stage of savagery, in which the only 

 rule of right is the rule of might. To have made 

 Darwinism an excuse for a war of aggression is 

 to have debased a sound natural philosophy to a 

 selfish and ignoble end. 



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