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 law, or the spiritual law descended and operative in matter, He is also in natural law, which likewise and as fully serves His will.

Now, since natural law is such ultimate expression of Divine law, natural selection is Divine selection. So, while Mr. Darwin was right in speaking of the creative process as natural selection, he was equally wrong in thinking that the power to select is innate in nature. For natural selection expresses only half the truth—the outward, lower half. For the completion of the truth we must supplement it with the inner and higher half—Divine selection. Natural selection being supplemented by Divine selection, the cloud over the tabernacle lifts and we can see to proceed on our journey. The mystery of creation is largely dispelled, for then it is realized how nature has selected so wisely, why she has never made a mistake, and why she never can err. We can then