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 vanced one whit in wisdom or one whit nearer an explanation.

There is only one sense in which "projected efficiency" has any sane meaning, and that is that the government of the future is the government of Him who inhabits the future, and to whom the future is as the present. With this definition of "projected efficiency" we can rationally agree, for then the governing principle in natural selection is, as we have shown, Divine selection or the good of the future, as determined by Him who sees the end from the beginning, and governs all things accordingly.

Present progress is, in this sense, the perpetual emancipation of the future in the present, the perpetual emancipation of higher thought and life in the minds of men, unfolding out of the Spirit of God, in whom the future is in potency.

But since it is impossible for the fu-