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 human character do not take away the moral motive in man. The vulture and tiger in human disposition do not make men all ravenous and fierce. They rather give the ground for resistance, against which is reaction and development. The doctrine of contrasts is now well known and generally recognized. Were there not the selfish and immoral, the moral would not appear. Nature which is a parable of man, must, like him, have both wheat and tares; yet alike in both the moral motive has the ascendancy. A right standpoint of view enables us to see clearly that the moral motive in all times has struggled through nature in all respects as it does through mankind, and has caused to survive the useful in fulfillment of the Divine purpose.

We must not linger in the single isolated struggle for existence, nor must we mistake a long succession of struggles for the interpretation of the cos-