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 ish in their broader and essential relations, and that no unperverted power or law that is from Him is other than unselfish.

There is nothing clearer to rational intelligence than that, if the moral motive cannot be seen in nature struggling as in man for the ascendancy and step by step securing its purpose, we may know our view of nature is yet superficial and its language an unknown tongue. For the reason that compels the acknowledgment of a Divine Being as the Supreme Architect, equally forces upon us that when creation was finished, "God saw that it was good." And good can be predicated of nothing that is without a moral motive, or essentially selfish.

The doctrine of the "unity of plan" in creation, which Mr. Huxley and other Evolutionists have urged and illustrated, and which is generally accepted, cannot be true if man is devel-