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 must exist the first incentive, and be demonstrated in the final purpose. "Every tree is known by his own fruit."

That natural selection, or as expressed in the less apt phrase, survival of the fittest, is, with right interpretation, a law of nature, there is no question. It is even a law of the spirit.

Natural selection, or survival of the fittest, may, in special cases and in limited degree, work out results in a short time; but the greater results, both in nature and in spirit, extend over centuries and even ages.

Natural selection operates in the natural and the spiritual world in a similar way because all law is an instrument of the Divine will and serves the Creator's purpose. The Creator does nothing arbitrarily. Since He acts through law on each plane, whether low or high, law appears to do its own selecting and to work as of it-