440 THE ASCENT OF MAN 



an infinite acceleration of the processes by which 

 the end, eternal from the beginning, was henceforth 

 to be realized. A religion which is Love and a 

 Nature which is Love can never but be one. The 

 infinite exaltation in quality is what the progressive 

 revelation from the beginning has taught us to ex- 

 pect. Christianity, truly, has its own phenomena: 

 its special processes ; its factors altogether unique. 

 But these do not excommunicate it from God's 

 order. They are in line with all that has gone 

 before, the latest disclosure of Environment. Most 

 strange to us and new, most miraculous and super- 

 natural when looked at from beneath, they are 

 the normal phenomena of altitude, the revelation 

 natural to the highest height. While Evolution 

 never deviates from its course, it assumes new 

 developments at every stage of the Ascent ; and 

 here, as the last and highest, these specializations, 

 accelerations, modifications, are most revolutionary 

 of all. For the evolving products are now no 

 longer the prey and tool of the Struggle for 

 Life — the normal dynamic of the world's youth. 

 For them its appeal is vain ; its force is spent ; 

 a quicker road to progress has been found. 

 No longer driven from below by the Animal 

 Struggle, they are drawn upward from above ; 

 no longer compelled by hate or hunger, by rivalry 



