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The teachings of biology agree with the teachings of religion 
as regards the whole duty of^ man. They show that everywhere 
and always the interests of the race are superior to the interests 
of the individual. They exalt altruism and condemn selfishness. 
Some of us thought, when we adopted different theories about 
man’s origin, that we had come to the parting of the ways, and 
that thenceforth pur paths would diverge, but we have been 
surprised again and again to find each other working shoulder 
to shoulder in the same great tasks of humanity and fighting 
as comrades for the right and against the wrong. 
We have about concluded that our differences were over 
definitions merely, not realities. 
‘‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” 
are the simple, grand words of the first chapter of Genesis. 
These are the words of a modern poet,^ who has spent his life 
in the academic atmosphere of an American college: 
A fire-mist and a planet, 
A crystal and a cell, 
A jelly-fish and a saurian. 
And caves where the cave-men dwell; 
Then a sense of law and beauty 
And a face turned from the clod. 
Some call it Evolution, 
And others call it God. 
A picket frozen on duty, 
A mother starved for her brood, 
Socrates drinking the hemlock, 
And Jesus on the rood; 
And millions who, humble and nameless, 
The straight, hard pathway plod. 
Some call it Consecration, 
And others call it God. 
2 W. H. Carruth, Each in his own tongue. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, N. Y. 1908. 
