lOO EVIDENCES AND LIMITATIONS 



cant and orderly purposes for which it was made. 

 The fact that the scenery of the world-drama is partly 

 organic show^s the vital immanence of its Maker and 

 transcendent Stage-manager. It does not displace 

 Him, but makes more apparent His resourcefulness 

 and omnipresent power. ^ 



1 must proceed to mention some of the more specific 

 indications that physical evolution alone cannot explain 

 the origin of the human species. IMr. Wallace, writing 

 from the Darwinian standpoint, dwells upon two of 

 them. 



1. He shows in the first place that man possesses 

 certain faculties — he mentions the mathematical, 

 musical, and artistic faculties — which are not found 

 in the lower species, but which appear to have no utility 

 whatever for natural selection and survival of the 

 fittest. As he says, the essential features of Darwin's 

 theory are, ''the preservation of useful variations in 

 the struggle for life; that no creature can be improved 

 beyond its necessities for the time being; that the law 

 acts by life and death, and by the survival of the fittest." 

 But these faculties constitute variations in the human 

 species which are neither needful nor useful for the 

 struggle for life, and cannot, therefore, have owed their 

 development to natural selection.^ 



2. His second argument is this. In its working the 

 law of natural selection requires that the specific char- 



^ The principle of continuity in relation to supernatural factors in 

 the world-drama is discussed at length in Lee. v. Pts. II, III, below. 



2 Darwinism, pp. 264-269. 



