plexity, the Infinite Sensibility, God. So the spiritual
carries on the marvelous process to which all lower Nature ministers,
and perfects it when the ministry of lower Nature fails.

This conception of a further Evolution carries with it the final answer
to the charge that, as regards morality, the Spiritual world has nothing
to offer man that is not already within his reach. Will it be contended
that a perfect morality is already within the reach of the natural man?
What product of the organic creation has ever attained to the fullness
of the stature of Him who is the Founder and Type of the Spiritual
Kingdom? What do men know of the qualities enjoined in His Beatitudes,
or at what value do they estimate them? Proved by results, it is surely
already decided that on merely natural lines moral perfection is
unattainable. And even Science is beginning to awaken to the momentous
truth that Man, the highest product of the Organic Kingdom, is a
disappointment. But even were it otherwise, if even in prospect the
hopes of the Organic Kingdom could be justified, its standard of beauty
is not so high, nor, in spite of the dreams of Evolution, is its
guarantee so certain. The goal of the organisms of the Spiritual World
is nothing less than this--to be "holy as He is holy, and pure as He is
pure." And by the Law of Conformity to Type, their final perfection is
secured. The inward nature must develop out according to its Type, until
the consummation of oneness with God is reached.

These proposals of the Spiritual Kingdom in the direction of Evolution
are at least entitled to be carefully considered by Science.
Christianity defines the highest conceivable future for mankind. It
satisfies the Law of Continuity. It guarantees the necessary conditions
for carrying on the organism successfully, from stage to stage. It
provides against the tendency to Degeneration. And finally, instead of
limiting the yearning hope of final perfection to the organisms of a
future age--an age so remote that the hope for thousands of years must
still be hopeless--instead of inflicting this cruelty on intelligences
mature enough to know perfection and earnest enough to wish it,
Christianity puts the prize within immediate reach of man.

This attempt to incorporate the Spiritual Kingdom in the scheme of
Evolution, may be met by what seems at first sight a fatal objection. So
far from the idea of a Spiritual Kingdom being in harmony with the
doctrine of