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vail, the Harpies and cannibal Cyclops are not fabulous creatures of ancient times, but real monsters dwelling in civilized countries, still satiating their cruel appetites with human flesh.

Mr. Drummond saw this, and endeavored to repair the defect by supplementing the struggle for self by the struggle for the lives of others, as observed in the surrender of life-force by plants and animals in the propagation of their kind. And others, feeling deeply the wrong of Evolution as taught by the school of Messrs, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Spencer, and Hæckel, have worked to modify the theory; so that already, in these rapidly changing times, the old school of Evolution is quite antiquated.

Strong and godly men have taken the more likely part of Evolution as devised by the Sensists, and used it not to confirm materialism and excuse agnosticism, but as a means of advancing nearer to the Divine, into clearer