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tion, resignation, duty, love of our fellows ; only that 

 these truths, great and important and eternal as they are, 

 require to be further supplemented or qualified to make 

 them suitable to the modern man's nature and circum- 

 stances, altered in some respects but still the same, with 

 the same needs, spiritual and social, in others. 



5. Thus the development of the human species, 

 the civilizations of humanity, have not been accom- 

 plished by natural selection, as the Darwinian doctrine 

 implies. The development of the human spirit has come 

 from an inner revelation to certain privileged individuals 

 a revelation of truth, of insight, of inventive power, 

 of duty, of beauty ; visiting the soul unsolicited ; coming 

 none can say whence, not even the possessors, further 

 than that it is from the Unknown, from the Purpose 

 of the universe, that thus means and wishes to declare 

 and develop itself from God and not from Chance. 

 Natural selection has clearly had nothing to do with the 

 origin, with the deposition of the first germs of morality, 

 art, invention, science, or religion ; and it has really had 

 extremely little to do with the further development of 

 any of these, or, by consequence, of mankind. It has 

 been through great individuals, men of higher, deeper, 

 finer, nobler natures, in mind, or soul, or moral purpose, 

 that our human species has been developed and lifted up 

 to its present proud heights. It has not been by natural 

 selection that man's soul has been differentiated and 

 perfected, however this be true of his bodily organization. 

 It has been through the superior single souls, and where 

 none such have appeared, as amongst the savage races, 

 man has still remained but a few removes from the 

 brute. It has been by the help of these great ones, 

 formerly held as demigods and heroes, that all the pro- 

 gress and development which science rightly refers to 



