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CREATION BY EVOLUTION

ance, this reference, are themselves here and now in process of evolution. In daily life they sustain worthy endeavour. They may rise from lower to higher.

We speak of this kind of advance in human life as illustrating nearer approach, with joy under guidance, to truth, beauty, goodness, and above all, to love and good will. Here mind in evolution reaches its highest expression. And even if it be part of our belief that we are thus in touch with the eternal verities, it may also be part of our belief that closer approach to their realisation in human affairs is seen in that progressive process in time which we call evolution.


REFERENCES

Those who are interested in the line of treatment followed in the first part of this article may consult Professor A. N. Whitehead’s “Science and the Modern World,” General Smuts’ “Holism and Evolution,” and my Gilford Lectures on “Emergent Evolution,” and “Life, Mind and Spirit.”

“The world has been evolved, not (specially) created; it has arisen, little by little, from a small beginning at an almighty word. What a sublime idea of the Infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the eflFects themselves.”— Erasmus Darwin (Grandfather of Charles Darwin).


“It is absolutely certain that we are in the presence of an Infinite Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.”—Herbert Spencer.

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