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 Evolution might advance, others will modify the mistakes of the school of Messrs. Huxley, Spencer, and Tyndall. In this regard Mr. Fiske, in his "Through Nature to God," performs an admirable service. Says he, "When Huxley asks us to believe that the cosmic process has no sort of relation to moral ends, I feel like replying with the question, Does not the cosmic process exist purely for the sake of moral ends?" Certainly moral ends have been secured. Creation has brought them forth. And taking into consideration the relation between cause and effect, it can be concluded positively that the cosmic process is nothing other than the means through which moral ends have been secured; first in bringing forth a being sufficiently high to be capable of morality, and second in inspiring him with moral ideals and ambitions. The moral motive that is in the first cause