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the formed adult, is proved. The still 

 wider evolution, not of solitary individuals, 

 but of all the individuals within each 

 province in the vegetable world, from the 

 unicellular cryptogam to the highest phane- 

 rogram; in the animal world, from the 

 amorphous amo3ba to MAN is at least sus- 

 pected, the gradual rise of types being at 

 all events a fact. But now at last we see 

 kingdoms evolving. . . . And so out of the 

 infinite complexity there arises an infinite 

 simplicity, the foreshadowing of a final 

 unity of that 



" ' One God, one law, one element, 

 And one far off divine event, 

 To which the whole creation moves ' " (p. 412). 



The great value of Professor Drum- 

 mond's work on Natural Law in the Spiritual 

 World, is the noble stand which the author 

 has made on behalf of Evangelical teaching 

 as presented to us in the New Testament, 

 which pervades and permeates the work 

 throughout, from the first dawn of spritual 

 life when the heart is converted and the 

 new birth has taken place, until the time 



