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given form, may be considered as one grand resultant. — Environment is 

 thus a power making at first for digestion and reproduction, then for mus- 

 cular strength and activity, then for shrewdness, finally for unselfishness 

 and righteousness. — An ultimate "power, not ourselves, making for right- 

 eousness," a personality. — Our Imowledge of this personality may be valid, 

 even though very incomplete. — Religion. — Conformity to the spiritual in 

 or behind environment is likeness to God. — The conservative tendency in 

 evolution. 



CHAPTEE VII 



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CONFOBMITY TO EnVIBONMENT 177 



Human environment. — The development of the family as the school of 

 man's tiaining. — The family as the school of unselfishness and obedience. 

 — The family as the basis of social life. ^Society as an aid to conformity 

 to environment by increasing intelligence and training conscience. — Mental 

 and moral heredity. — Personal magnetism. — Man's search for a king. — 

 The essence of Christianity. — Conformity to environment gives future 

 supremacy, but often at the cost of present hardship. — Conformity as 

 obedience to the laws of our being. — Environment best understood through 

 the study of the human mind. — Productiveness and prospectiveness of 

 vital capital. — Faith. 



CHAPTEE VIII 

 Man 210 



Composed of atoms and molecules, hence subject to chemical and physi- 

 cal laws. — As a living being. — As an animal. — As » vertebrate. — As a 

 mammal. — As a social being. — As a personal and moral being. — The con- 

 flict between the higher and the lower in man. — As a religious being. — As 

 hero. — He has not yet attained. — Future man. — He will utilize all his 

 powers, duly subordinating the lower to the higher. — The triumph of the 

 common people. 



CHAPTEE IX 



The Teachings of the Bible 241 



Subject of the Bible.— J/a«; Body, intellect, heart. — Oocl : Law, sin, 

 and penalty. — God manifested in Christ. — Salvation, the divine life per- 

 meating man. — Faith.— Prayer.— Hope. — The Church. — The battle. — The 

 victory. — The crown. ' 



