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judgment would be solved according to scientific prin- 

 ciples ; in one of theologians according to the categories 

 of theology. Everywhere all questions are answered 

 according to the prevailing views of either philosophy, 

 science, or theology. 



STEPS OF EVOLUTION. "Civilization is simply the 

 process of an adjustment on a large scale, whereby man 's 

 whole nature, physical, intellectual, and moral, develops 

 in all its marvelous complexity in response to an environ- 

 ment, also increasing in complexity." In this way the 

 adjustment is made by the natural law of evolution. If 

 made in any other way it is weak and tottering. 



Mark the order of the adjustments as stated : First, 

 physical; second, intellectual; third, moral. This is 

 the natural order of evolution in general if there is 

 any succession. The first development of an organism, 

 from undifferentiated protoplasm, is into the purely 

 physical cell, the amoeba, for instance, consisting of 

 one cell, and all stomach no nervous structure. It is 

 not until the organism has attained considerable com- 

 plexity that nerve structure is evolved ; then intelli- 

 gence begins to dawn. But it is not until it becomes 

 so complex in correspondence with the like complexity 

 of environment, that it requires what are called 

 memory, reason, and will, that the intellectual is 

 evolved. Lastly, the moral, or ethical, is evolved from 

 the intellect, or develops co-ordinately with it. It is 

 the same way in the evolution of society from the 

 primal gens, leading a purely natural life, to the 

 present complex civilization. The present code of 

 civic morality is not the "root but the fruit of civiliza- 

 tion." A natural code founded on the laws of evolu- 

 tion is the root of all civilization. It has been the real 

 root of what is strong, and enduring, in the present 

 rapidly changing civilization. 



