self. With the meaning that the Creator works through constituted agencies natural selection is a true statement of a fact. If one can bring himself to see that God is essentially infinite love, in which all power initially is, and that infinite wisdom is simply His love's mode of action, in which all law is contained, there will be no substantial error in his conception of natural selection.
In accepting survival of the fittest as a law, it is important to know and define what the "fittest" is. What is it that nature saves? If the fittest survive, such it is her purpose to save, for surely nature's purpose is wrought out as well in securing all her designs as in the exaction of penalties for not fulfilling her laws.
We cannot understand by survival of the fittest merely the fittest to survive in the sense of the fittest to exist in and for self. If this were what it
