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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
70
And—
understand
it
well—
the
grand
passage
I
have
just
quoted
need
not
be
accused
of
substituting
“natural
selection
for
God.”
In
any
case
natural
selection
would
be
only
the
means
or
law
by
which
God
works,
as
He
does
by
other
natural
laws.
We
do
not
substitute
gravitation
for
God,
when
we
say
that
the
planets
are
sustained
in
their
orbits
by
the
law
of
gravitation.
The
theory
about
natural
selection
may
be
untrue,
or
imperfect,
as
may
the
modern
theories
of
the
“evolution
and
progress”
of
organic
forms:
let
the
man
of
science
decide
that.
But
if
true,
the
theories
seem
to
me
perfectly
to
agree
with,
and
may
be
perfectly
explained
by,
the
simple
old
belief
which
the
Bible
sets
before
us,
of
a
LIVING
GOD:
not
a
mere
past
will,
such
as
the
Koran
sets
forth,
creating
once
and
for
all,
and
then
leaving
the
universe,
to
use
Goethe’s
simile,
“to
spin
round
his
finger;”
nor
again,
an
“all-pervading
spirit,”
words
which
are
mere
contradictory
jargon,
concealing,
from
those
who
utter
them,
blank
Materialism:
but
One
who
works
in
all
things
which
have
obeyed
Him
to
will
and
to
do
of
His
good
pleasure,
keeping
His
abysmal
and
self-perfect
purpose,
yet
altering
the
methods
by
which
that
purpose
is
attained,
from
æon
to
æon,
ay,
from
moment
to
moment,
for
ever
various,
yet
for
ever
the
same.
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