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That there are discords in the " onward advancing 

 melody " (as Lotze called it) of evolution, disharmonies in 

 the great creative pattern, none but the disciples of Kous- 

 seau's static view of nature would dispute But the 

 shadows recede with the advance of knowledge and against 

 them I may quote Professor Thomson in the ' ' System of 

 Animate Nature " : 



" The plasticity, the adaptations, the progress, the inter- 

 linkings, the joy, the happiness, the masterpieces, the note 

 of gentleness, how they make the shadows shrink !" 



And they shrink with the advance of evolution as well as 

 knowledge as we, in spite of our far worse disharmonies, 

 move on from barbarism to civilization. It is all one 

 process: "In insisting upon the continuity of nature," 

 says Professor Blewitt in ' ' The Study of Nature and the 

 Vision of God," 



" men of science have been better theologians than the 

 theologians themselves. If God exists at all, He is the God 

 of all nature and of every natural law. There are no gaps 

 in His workmanship nor breaches of continuity in His 

 activity. If the theologians would be true to theology, what 

 they have to do is to protest, not against the principle of 

 continuity, but against too narrow a reading of it and too 

 narrow an application of it to reality. The true field of the 

 principle of continuity is the total history in time, the total 

 evolution, of the universe. And so viewed, it is simply one 

 way of apprehending the essential rationality of God and of 

 the divine action in nature and in history." 



God, cast out of nature, is exiled from man. 



