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 Evolution to social problems, and witness the final conclusions in regard to the origin of right, good, spirituality, conceptions of God, and the like, we are led so far away from the possible, and so deeply into the absurd and profane, that only the most sordid devotee, the shallow, and the credulous can entertain the doctrine.

The same causes that started creation have continued it, even to bringing forth its final form, which is the righteous and holy Christian, with a rational comprehension of a spiritual world, aspirations for eternal life, a living faith in God, and inmost desire to become more and more His image and likeness.

Now if fortune began creation, it has been by luck and chance that each step in the upward development was made; and luck, chance, and fortune are the sum of all intelligence, design, wisdom, love, and life that is or is to