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Gogga Brown 



is that Brown was a greater man than most of 

 his contemporaries, having the right perspective 

 to see ahead of the times in which he lived. 



I will not say that he had a contempt for the 

 crudities of the evolutionary theory, for he does 

 not discuss the matter at all. From the way in 

 which he ignores the issue, however, although 

 knowing all about it, I think it is safe to say that, 

 big as the theory bulked in other minds, it was 

 to him nothing more than a ripple, not even a 

 wave, on the ocean of his thoughts. He was 

 indeed so overawed by the might and majesty of 

 his Creator, that he was scared abjectly out of 

 taking up any stand with man-made opinions 

 concerning the interpretation or significance of 

 His works. He refused in fact to contemplate 

 any theory regarding natural phenomena that did 

 not take account of the all-pervading Spirit that 

 lay behind them. 



He seemed to realize intuitively that there might 

 be some truth in the great new Natural Law that 

 was being propounded, namely, that Survival goes 

 to the Fittest, but he knew that, like all such laws, 

 it was merely descriptive, and explanatory only 

 to a limited extent. It did not get down to the 

 bedrock of Causation. How could he regard it 

 as a universal proposition, when it did not give 



