While modern philosophy upholds and teaches an unfolding series in nature that supplants the old notion of immediatism in creation, it does not take away the idea that God planned, and that men have an allotment, definite and personal, in their gifts. For it is just as conceivable that God should see, through a long chain of physical operation, a final outcome of a definite quality as well as every antecedent step in that long series, as that he should have conceived the idea and have executed it at once and without any intermediate steps. So that all the declarations of both the Old and New Testaments as to the creation, that it was direct, are perfectly reconcilable with the theory of God's method as it is taught in our day, called Evolution.

In the passage which we read, and of which the text is a part, there is a recognition of diversity and of unity. The world has been specially on the side of governments, ecclesiastic and secular, idolizing unity; and has been entirely in the dark and in trouble about diversity.