Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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creation of man'! I think not all. It is no part of the doctt·iue
of the church-it is a comparativtlly mordttrn theory of the
naturalist, rashly accepted by the theologian!! of twn centuries
ago-that man i11 a 11pecial antlmulet·ived species. No tlnubt it
is to some of us Rtill a novel and even a repulsive thon;;ht. that
m:\11 may he phyRically related, however remotely. to other animals.
Bnt to thn11e wbo have looketl the thought in the faee it
appears in a different light. We are what we are, whatevt>l'
mir origin may have been. 1 can imagine no sublimet· cotweption
of the nature m· the dignity of man, than that whieh ~tees
all nature as the 11elf-manifeRta.tion of God rising into l'elfef•nscimumess
in man. Of course in all continuity tht>r~ is a
difficulty,-at what lJoint do consdutume1111, reason, t~ou,.;t~it>tWe,
1wnl, hegin '? But there is no mm·e difficulty in thiR tpte~tiun
a11 applied to the evolution of the myt·iatl furms of lift!, than as
applied to the myriad inm·ements of the inclivitlual from the
microscopic ·embryo. Christian doetrine