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 exist, not merely relatively, but intrinsically .

The evil in evolutionary reasons would never have appeared so clearly if evolutionists had stopped before they attempted to apply their principles to moral questions, and offer them in explanation of the spiritual development of man. Evolution is apparently innocent in its beginning. Eventually it throws off the sheep's clothing, and appears in its execrable profanity. It seems that the only charitable way of excusing the acceptance of Evolution by the religious, is to attribute their credulence to a superficial knowledge of its principles and to a total ignorance of its vicious conclusions.

Truth and goodness are the essential nature of God, from whom they originate, together with every idea concerning them. Indeed, if the virtues had not an absolute existence in the Divine Being, they never could have been so