Page:Divine Selection or The Survival of the Useful.djvu/73

 Viewing creation from the first to the present day, we see it to be a fact that forms took on successively nearer perfect correspondence with nature, and that when the animal in which there was at that time the nearest complete correspondence with nature became perfected, then came man, who has continued in the upward development, and little by little has come gradually into nearer perfect correspondence with the spiritual world and the Creator. This being the fact proves by all the logic there is in the course of events that it was the design in the beginning, and the final purpose throughout development.

If we admit the cause that the effect demonstrates, our vision will clear at once, "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal