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 real or unreal, toward which the cosmic process is moving. But here Evolution has at least been consistent with itself, for how could a theory have an end in view that had its beginning in the "fortuitous concourse of atoms?" The reality of the unseen world offers a rational solution to the whole problem. For how much easier it is to think of the ascent in creation being brought about by adjustment to internal realities rather than by adjustment to external non-realities! If we stop to think what words mean, we shall know that external non-realities are nothing, and that adjustments to external non-realities are adjustments to nothing.

The cosmic process regards two things, external realities and internal realities. There is the external reality of the natural world, to which material creation must conform. The eye is adjusted to the ether, the ear to