Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 23: A Monthly Magazine; October, 1909 Evolution, on the other hand, tells us that events have followed in orderly sequence; they bear to each other the relation of cause and effect; the present configuration of the material universe is the logical sequence of the one preceding, and a clear understanding of it would enable us to predict the one to follow. The caprice of a Deus ex machina gives wav to the uniformity of nature, and science becomes something more than mental gymnastics. Knowledge of the past enables us not only to understand the present, but also to predict the future, and to order our lives accordingly. If God made and now controls the universe, then evolution merely describes His method of work. We know that He does not play tricks with us. He has not made us to mock us. The universe is the revelation of himself, and our intellects were meant for something more than blind belief. This, in brief, is evolution. Creation is not an act, but a process, and still in progress. Merely for purposes of convenience we mav divide this process into two phases, inorganic evolution, and organic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.