at it can
abolish Death. And it is significant to notice that it does so by
meeting this very demand of Science--it abolishes Imperfection.

The part of the organism which begins to get out of correspondence with
the Organic Environment is the only part which is in vital
correspondence with it. Though a fatal disadvantage to the natural man
to be thrown out of correspondence with this Environment, it is of
inestimable importance to the spiritual man. For so long as it is
maintained the way is barred for a further Evolution. And hence the
condition necessary for the further Evolution is that the spiritual be
released from the natural. That is to say, the condition of the further
Evolution is Death. _Mors janua Vitae_, therefore, becomes a scientific
formula. Death, being the final shifting of all the correspondences, is
the indispensable factor of the higher Life. In the language of Science,
not less than of Scripture, "To die is gain."

The shifting of the correspondences is done by Nature. This is its last
and greatest contribution to mankind. Over the mouth of the grave the
perfect and the imperfect submit to their final separation. Each goes to
its own--earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Spirit to Spirit.
"The dust shall return to the earth as it was; and the Spirit shall
return unto God who gave it."

FOOTNOTES:

[68] "Principles of Biology," p. 82.

[69] "Principles of Biology," p. 88.

[70] John xvii.

[71] _Vide_ Sir John Lubbock's "Ants, Bees, and Wasps," pp. 1-181.

[72] Buechner: "Force and Matter," 3d Ed., p. 232.

[73] "The Creed of Science," p. 169.

[74] "Force and Matter," p. 231.

[75] 1 Cor. ii. 11, 12.

[76] Rom. viii. 35-39.

[77] _Vide_ "Conformity to Type," page 287.

[78] "History of Christian Theology in the Apostolic Age," vol. ii. p.
496.

[79] 1 John v. 20.

[80] _Vide_ also the remarkable experiments of Fraeulein v. Chauvin on
the Transformation of the Mexican Axolotl into Amblystoma.--Weismann's
"Studies in the Theory of Descent," vol. ii. pt. iii.

ENVIRONMENT.

"When I talked with an ardent missionary and pointed out to him that
his creed found no support in my experience, he replied: 'It is not
so in your experience, but is so in the other world.' I answered:
'Other world! There is no other world. God is one and omnipresent;
here or nowhere is the whole fact.'"--_Emerson._

"Ye are complete in Him."--_Paul._

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