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with which the later Tertiary prepared the 

 world for its present. 



If these passages of Genesis open to us- in 

 vision this grand procession of the life of the 

 past, our thought of God will certainly kindle 

 no less honor to him, while it will be more true 

 to the facts. 



Man's place in this vast stream of life the' 

 theistic evolutionist finds no difficulty in de- 

 fining. His flesh is of the earth earthy; his 

 animal life belongs with the broad current 

 above described. But God assures us that he 

 created another system, in this wider life 

 stream, even a spiritual one; for it is written 

 of man that "God breathed into his nostrils 

 the breath of life; and man became a living 

 soul." 



Here the 'Christian evolutionist finds the 

 latest and highest creative work of all that 

 to which all rightfully tends, that to which all 

 else was intended to be tributary the evolu- 

 tion of the religious destiny of mankind. 



Suppose now the question were asked, 

 what effect will the development theory have 



