r. For the goal of Evolution is Jesus Christ.

The Christian life is the only life that will ever be completed. Apart
from Christ the life of man is a broken pillar, the race of men an
unfinished pyramid. One by one in sight of Eternity all human Ideals
fall short, one by one before the open grave all human hopes dissolve.
The Laureate sees a moment's light in Nature's jealousy for the Type;
but that too vanishes.

"'So careful of the type?' but no.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, 'A thousand types are gone:
I care for nothing, all shall go.'"

All shall go? No, one Type remains. "Whom He did foreknow He also did
predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His Son." And "when Christ
who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in
glory."

FOOTNOTES:

[85] "There is, indeed, a period in the development of every tissue and
every living thing known to us when there are actually no _structural_
peculiarities whatever--when the whole organism consists of transparent,
structureless, semi-fluid living bioplasm--when it would not be possible
to distinguish the growing moving matter which was to evolve the oak
from that which was the germ of a vertebrate animal. Nor can any
difference be discerned between the bioplasm matter of the lowest,
simplest, epithelial scale of man's organism and that from which the
nerve cells of his brain are to be evolved. Neither by studying bioplasm
under the microscope nor by any kind of physical or chemical
investigation known, can we form any notion of the nature of the
substance which is to be formed by the bioplasm, or what will be the
ordinary results of the living."--"Bioplasm," Lionel S. Beale, F.R.S.,
pp. 17, 18.

[86] Huxley: "Lay Sermons," 6th Ed., pp. 127, 129.

[87] Huxley: "Lay Sermons," 6th Ed., p. 261.

[88] "Origin of Species," p. 166.

[89] There is no intention here to countenance the old doctrine of the
permanence of species. Whether the word species represent a fixed
quantity or the reverse does not affect the question. The facts as
stated are true in contemporary zoology if not in palaeontology. It may
also be added that the general conception of a definite Vital Principle
is used here simply as a working hypothesis. Science may yet have to
give up what the Germans call the "ontogenetic directive Force." But in
the absence of any proof to the contrary, and especially of any
satisfactory alternative, we are