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otherwise, for in correspondence with something is every living thing made. There is no orderly appetite for which there is not a satisfying food. Of the mind's appetites it is equally true that the desire is sufficient evidence of the reality of its object and of the possibility of its satisfaction.

Evolution emphasizes the theory of a development from the unicellular form to the complex structure of man. The creating energy has been so persistent that it has persevered to bring forth the perfect form, even by infinitesimal increments. It has developed a type of being whose understanding gives him an immovable faith in the existence of God, whose inmost and all-controlling life is to know God, whose chief purpose of existence is to become like Him, and who, in the exercise of this life, finds the highest, sweetest, most blessed and precious joy that is known. There are many who will say that it does not stand