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of others only a part of that fact, signifying struggle 

 of group against group, yet assuredly signifying, still 

 and always, struggle. If it be true that ultimately the 

 whole race is " a moral organism," that " we are mem- 

 bers one of another," that the highest and most 

 advanced need the welfare of the most backward, 

 that fact is a spiritual truth. We must not look to find 

 it in nature ; we must not localise it in part of nature, 

 and call this the moral part in contrast to the remainder, 

 which is immoral or wicked. Nature is the presup- 

 position of reason and morality, but reason and moral- 

 ity work up the whole of nature's raw material, not 

 the half merely. 



As against Huxley, Drummond seems to have been 

 right. As against Darwin, he did not formulate any 

 scientific difference. The same facts are in the view 

 of both the same facts differently stated and 

 emphasised. To make a decisive advance, Drum- 

 mond needed a more adequate philosophical school- 

 ing. He intended to vindicate all nature for God. 

 Constantly he seems to be vindicating only a section, 

 though perhaps a growing section. That position is 

 of no possible interest to Christian theism. 



