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beneath Nature is not stilled. Love not only was ; 

 it is ; it moves ; it spreads. To ignore the later 

 and most striking phases is to fail to see what the 

 earlier process really was, and to leave the ancient 

 task of Evolution historically incomplete. That 

 Christian development, social, moral, spiritual, 

 which is going on around us, is as real an evolu- 

 tionary movement as any that preceded it, and at 

 least as capable of scientific expression. A system 

 founded on Self-Sacrifice, whose fittest symbol is 

 the Leaven, whose organic development has its 

 natural analogy in the growth of a Mustard Tree, 

 is not a foreign thing to the Evolutionist ; and 

 that prophet of the Kingdom of God was no less 

 the spokesman of Nature who proclaimed that the 

 end of Man is " that which we had from the begin- 

 ning, that we lover « 



In the profoundest sense, this is scientific doctrine. 

 The Ascent of Man and of Society is bound up 

 henceforth with the conflict, the intensification, and 

 the diffusion of the Struggle for the Life of Others. 

 This is the Further Evolution, the page of history 

 that lies before us, the closing act of the drama 

 of Man. The Struggle may be short or long ; 

 but by all scientific analogy the result is sure. 

 All the other Kingdoms of Nature were completed ; 

 Evolution always attains ; always rounds off its 



