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 law that does not work out a final good and the highest welfare of man, who is the end of creation and for whose service all things are and were created. We are obliged, therefore, to conclude, if we look over a greater area of phenomena, that "beauty and ugliness, virtue and vice " are not alike to natural selection, but that the true interpretation of the law is that it exalts beauty and removes ugliness, and that it perpetuates virtue and eliminates vice.

If we confine our view to the small arena of one plant struggling for existence against another, or one animal fighting against another for his food, our conclusions must be as erroneous as our horizon is narrow. We must look over considerable territory to ascertain the direct course of a river. We cannot judge of the moral motive in cosmic processes from a battle between wolves. We must look to the