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PROOFS OF EVOLUTION. 
“ sweetness and light,”—of better social conditions 
and individual progress. The old theology- 
worships the Unknown, and prays to change the 
changeless. It believes at least in “ Theological 
selection,” insuring the survival of the “ elect,” 
while the tropic storm of pain sweeps over all 
the rest. Evolution has entered every pulpit, and 
softened every harsh voice, and is hopeful of the 
time when to creedless moral beauty, man will 
concede a crown. 
Man entered the world, as Evolution assures us, 
not in disobedience, but in unison with the two 
grandest forces in breathing Nature. He began life 
with innocence, and under the inspiration of Hunger 
and Love. The one led to the divinity of Labor; 
the other to the heights of Happiness. Theology 
declares that he began the world turned out from 
Paradise; Hunger without a crust and Love with¬ 
out a home. The one idea was upward; the other 
downward. Which is better ? 
In this presentation of the case of Evolution, I 
am aware that only the borders of the broad field 
have been touched. The fulness of ripe-eared 
Truth lies yet in store. If I have made you 
hungry, it is well. 
