Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    either we feel it in our bones, or we do not. His message was one of singular simplicity; it was free from theological subtleties, it was understanded of the simple, it was preached by fishermen, it was revealed to babes. After all, it happened not so long ago : there was much civilisation before that, the great works of the Ancients had already been written. It is, so to speak, the last word in evolution, so far. It shows us what is possible. The evolution of man is far from complete, it is a going-on process, a long-continued process, of which we only see the beginning; but we have had an indication of what man may become, and of the divine elevation which is within his reach. Conclusion And now in conclusion let us try to summarise the two main stages in man’s evolution. First came the knowledge of good and evil, the sense of sin, the power of judging,—the sense of transgression, the sense of law. Thereafter man was
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