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 terminates in the effect or the final created form. It can be concluded certainly that not only is there a moral motive in the cosmic process, but also that the moral motive in the First Cause, or the Creator, flows through all His agencies into the last effect, and binds all to Himself in unity.

If Evolution, as an explanation of phenomena, merits longer serious consideration, it must at least be so revised that there shall be no break from the creation of the moneron to the finest specimen of religious man. When it is known that the evolutionary conception of the cosmic process cannot be applied alike to matter and mind, it can no longer command the favor of thinking men, and must stand as a monument to the memory of great but misguided genius.

Mr. Fiske aptly suggests a readjustment of Evolution that is a forecast of what is to come, and in doing so he