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 every step, and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process."

It is remarkable that so keen a thinker as Mr. Huxley should not at once see that the existence in nature of two creative processes is as impossible as the existence of two Creators.

Evolutionary reasonings in regard to the cosmic process are brought to an abrupt end when moral questions are taken up, because the theory of Evolution is constructed without recognition of the moral, and can therefore in no wise account for it. It is far easier to amend the conception of the cosmic process than it is to conceive of two processes in creation diametrically opposed. The tendency of modern thinkers, therefore, is in the direction of reforming the conception of the cosmic process.

As Darwin eliminated the inconsistencies of Lamarck that the theory of