HOW THE MAMMALS DEVELOPED 219 
until it becomes the finest passion of his life, abso- 
lutely transforming him, in relation to her, from a 
selfish brute into a tender and lifelong companion. 
So utterly does the love thus engendered transfigure 
human life that when we seek to express the divine 
nature in human terms, and these are the only terms 
we know how to use, the richest revelation that has 
come to us is the conception taught by the Master that 
“God is Love” and that “as a father pitieth his chil- 
dren, so the Lord loveth them that fear him.” 
