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mic process, but rather search for the motive that works out through the struggle. The mind must comprehend not only individuals, generations, and ages, but also whole periods of time. Then the moral motive, which is the service of man, naturally and spiritually, and thus the will of God, is as surely present and dominant in nature as it is in man or in God's kingdom. Finally it may be said that since the cosmic process secures moral ends, it must recognize the moral. The better and eternal expression of its law is The Survival of the Useful.