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Title: God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Price, George McCready, 1870-1963
Subjects: Religion and science Evolution
Publisher: Washington, Review and Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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h of theuniversal belief in the doctrine of Evolution: — 1. The subordinating of every minor interest to the su-preme idea of corporate progress, the progress of the stateor the progress of the world. This involves the curtailingof individualism wherever it conflicts with the fancied ne-cessities of the whole. 2. Ecclesiastical blending or co-operation in securingresults desired by the leading religionists. It is not alone the Peace Congress delegates who areworking for the parliament of man, the federation of theworld, or for the republic of the world, as it is variouslyexpressed. Consciously or unconsciously, every public-ownership man, every Socialist, every imperialist, every trustmagnate, is contributing something to the swelling cry ofthose enthusiastic but deluded voices that are now seekingto carry out over the whole world what has been re-enactedover and over again all down through the years whenevera community or a nation found themselves unable to gov- 3 34 GODS TWO BOOKS
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CARDINAL GIBBONS GODS TWO BOOKS 35 em themselves, and with hurrahs and clapping of handsinvited a Caesar or a local chieftain to assume the task.The dismal failure to accomplish the object sought, whichhas so inevitably followed with mathematical precision inthe past, seems not in any way to abate the zeal of thepolitical enthusiasts of the present, for few have ever readhistory to any profit. But the point to be especially notedhere is that practically every Socialist, every imperialist orworld federationist, bases his whole argument ultimatelyon the evolutionary progress of the race or the world. The other panacea for the many evils of our time isalso the logical outgrowth of the Evolution doctrine in theminds of those chiefly concerned with moral and ecclesi-astical matters. During all the ages the Roman CatholicChurch has advocated, and wherever possible has prac-tised, the enforcement of the teachings and worship of thechurch. But the whole Protestant world has for manydecades be

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