CHAPTER III
The Moral Motive
in the
Cosmic Process
MAN believes in God intuitively because God is. He does not doubt His existence and government until he has imbibed falsities from without.
When moral men began to give way to the claims of Evolution, they immediately asked, "What relation does the theory bear to the Creator? What relation does He bear to it? Where is the moral motive in the cosmic process?" Certainly if Evolution is of God, His hand is there. The moral motive must be sought, like all motives, within the law as the end in view. The motive is the soul of law. The law is the means through which the motive is accomplished. The moral motive
