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 understand how nature could select to form the seas and the dry land, the simplest forms of primeval flora and fauna, and advance so orderly and surely to the creation of man, and lastly work at every point, besetting man before and behind, to make him righteous and holy as the heir to the wisdom, love, and blessings of Divine life itself.

It is this perception of things commonly felt, though vaguely expressed, that will not permit thought to rest in the inadequate and misleading doctrine of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and that is seeking to give expression to the grander fact of Divine Selection and Survival of the Useful, the perpetual proof and exemplification of which the universe is.