1 8 Introduction 



process in our Western civilisation, and that from a 

 consideration of scientific data in regard to the laws 

 which regulate the universe and the world of living 

 matter, and more particularly the history of mankind, 

 we are justified in believing, or rather compelled to the 

 belief, that the plan of the universe and the graduated 

 scale of living organisms upon the earth is the result 

 of design on the part of an eternal, all-wise, in- 

 telligent, omnipotent, directing Power, " who maketh 

 for righteousness." 1 And further, we are forced to 

 adopt the logical outcome of this position — the teleo- 

 logical view of the universe, which means an evolu- 

 tionary plan pointing to the final goal so beautifully 

 expressed in the noble lines of the late Laureate : 



" That God, which ever lives and moves, 

 One God, one law, one element, 

 And one — far-off divine event, 

 To which the whole creation moves." 



1 Matthew Arnold, " Literature and Dogma." 



