EVOLUTION AND GENESIS 27 



And every winged fowl ance of the material evolution 



after its kind. (NoTE : This and multiplication of living 



repetition is here made, not be- forms as heat increased growth 



fore but after God has revealed or a greater preponderance of 



to us in Genesis the dawn of new varieties or species of life 



mind and soul, so as to point in a permanent form, as con- 



out to us that mental as well tractions of its surface liber- 



as bodily perfections will for ated new forms of radio- 



evcr be not a question of ad- activity to create new forms of 



vancement in civilisation or energy and life as fresh at- 



surroundings,but one of the re- tributes of God's Trinity were 



suits of the survival of the in this manner changed from 



fittest by the hereditary laws, dormant to active forces in the 



that like begets like, both in course of Evolution, before the 



mental as well as in physical earth had completely cooled, 



development, that is to say it after which Matter and Species 



will be so in the majority of were to be changed, by past, 



cases; and here please take rather than new forces through 



note that prior to the Fifth variation, until each attribute 



Day of Evolution and Creation completes its evolution. 

 this was not the case, for in Fifth Day of Evolution : At 



the Fourth Day, as regards this period the plants grew 



early forms of plant and the with terrific fertility, and to 



primary forms of animal life, enormous sizes, for the whole 



and from the first as regards of the world was of tropical 



the creation of matter, like did heat ; in fact, of a much higher 



not beget like in all cases, for temperature than the tropical 



it is not till the formation of heat of to-day, and most of its 



the vertebrate fish that like growth was of the palm va- 



begets like in animal life, for riety, which also marks the 



according to the plant that tropical growth in this age of 



gave it life, so was fashioned creation. 



the animal to which it gave And the animals which were 



existence. But once the bodily the first to leave the waters 



form of these animals was were the mud-fish, amphibia, 



complete, God binds them by and reptiles, which grew to 



the laws of descent.) mammoth sizes, as the tem- 



And God blessed them say- perature at this age of Evolu- 



ing Be fruitful and multiply tion was higher in the temper- 



and fill the waters in the seas, ate zones than it is to-day in 



and let fowls multiply in the the tropics, and the evolution 



