438 THE ASCENT OF MAN 



religion — a religion congruous with the whole past 

 of Man, at one with Nature, and with a working 

 creed which Science could accept? 



The answer is a simple one : We have it 

 already. There exists a religion which has 

 anticipated all these requirements — a religion 

 which has been before the world these eighteen 

 hundred years, whose congruity with Nature and 

 with Man stands the tests at every point. Up to 

 this time no word has been spoken to recon- 

 cile Christianity with Evolution, or Evolution with 

 Christianity. And why ? Because the two are 

 one. What is Evolution ? A method of creation. 

 What is its object ? To make more perfect living 

 beings. What is Christianity ? A method of 

 creation. What is its object ? To make more 

 perfect living beings. Through what does Evolu- 

 tion work? Through Love. Through what does 

 Christianity work ? Through Love. Evolution and 

 Christianity have the same Author, the same end, 

 the same spirit. There is no rivalry between 

 these processes, Christianity struck into the Evolu- 

 tionary process with no noise or shock ; it upset 

 nothing of all that had been done; it took all the 

 natural foundations precisely as it found them ; it 

 adopted Man's body, mind, and soul at the exact 

 level where Organic Evolution was at work upon 



