PROOFS OF EVOLUTION. 
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and well, we must adjust ourselves to the natural 
and rational. 
While it does not take away one rational hope, 
Evolution sweeps into oblivion all the childish 
fables of the past; it points to a new heaven and 
a new earth; it bids us awake from our pretty 
dream of the supernatural, and work in, with and 
through Nature, if we would make the wilderness 
of woe and wrong to blossom as the rose. It has 
unified all science and given learning a new force 
and meaning. It has added vastly to the sum 
of knowledge, and to the aggregate of human 
happiness. 
In all its branches and bearings, it directly 
tends to enlarge and intensify human love and 
sympathy, and so stimulates the forces that lead 
to industry and thrift, and on to the highest plane 
of moral well-being. 
It teaches the principles of adjustment and 
harmony; it bids us always to take thought for 
the morrow, and proclaims that love and labor 
united constitute the “ divinity that shapes our 
ends.” It will make the world more generous, 
kind, and charitable; more patient, brave and 
true; more humble, gentle, and unselfish; more 
