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works ; thirdly, an intellectual type, more favorable to 

 works than to faith. Though in regard to responsibility 

 these states may be equal, there is absolutely no gain to 

 laboring humanity from the first type, and a serious loss 

 in actual results from the second, taken alone, as com- 

 pared with the third. 



These, then, are the physical vehicles of religion the 

 " earthen vessels " of Paul which give character and 

 tone to the deeper spiritual life, as the color of the 

 transparent vessel is communicated to the light which 

 radiates from within. 



But if evolution has taken place, there is evidently a 

 provision for the progress from the lower to the higher 

 states, either in the education of circumstances (" con- 

 flict,") or in the power of an interior spiritual influence 

 ("harmony,") or both. 



/3. Evidence Derived from History, 



We trace the development of Morality in First, the 

 family or social order; second, the civil order, or gov- 

 ernment. 



Whatever may have been the extent of moral igno- 

 rance before the Deluge, it does not appear that the 

 earth was yet prepared for the permanent habitation of 

 the human race. All nations preserve traditions of the 

 drowning of the early peoples by floods, such as have 

 occurred frequently during geologic time. At the close 

 of each period of dry land, a period of submergence 

 has set in, and the depression of the level of the earth, 

 and consequent overflow by the sea, has caused the 

 death and subsequent preservation of the remains of 

 the fauna and flora living upon it, while the elevation of 



