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 of nature, or from the workings of what are called laws of Natural Selection or of the Survival of the Fittest.

Under the second division, that of the Supernaturalist, are embraced many shades of opinion, which I have classified in four subdivisions. First: there are those who deny that nature unaided is able to create or to evolve, yet otherwise they concede the reasonings and claims of Evolution. These accept Evolution generally, but only as God's method of creating; and they hold that His intelligence and directing power are ever present as the first cause.

Second: there are the Creationists, who believe in the individual creation of all things by the fiat of the Almighty, substantially as they are now.

Third: there are those who do not believe in a personal God, yet advocate the existence of a universal intelligence. The forms of thought under this head are too mixed and indefinite to admit of classification. Some hold that the universal intelligence is an inner realm of nature. This would bring them under the first general division, that of Materialists. Others hold that the universal intelligence is a kind of pervading spirit superior to nature; and others that it is not a substance natural or spiritual. What then it is, they must answer.