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 It is creation itself upon which the scholarship of the world should center, and of which it should seek a rational explanation, for the evident reason that the same principles are applicable to each step in its development. Since the superstructure can be no more stable than the foundation upon which it rests, we should not be surprised at the revulsion that the theory of Evolution meets among the more discerning thinkers. For it is this irrational quality carried throughout Evolution that causes a great body of the religious and intelligent to hold the theory in abeyance as something yet inadequate and unsatisfactory.

The unmodified law of the "survival of the fittest" is instinctively seen as pure selfishness. It does not answer back to the unselfishness in human kind. It is not a human explanation. God is good, we feel. His works are good. But if the cold and cruel strug-