Divine Selection or The Survival of the Useful. George Henry Dole

      It ought not to be difficult to perceive that an infinitely good Creator can make neither nature nor man self​ish in their broader and essential relations, and that no unperverted power or law that is from Him is other than unselfish.

      There is nothing clearer to rational intelligence than that, if the moral motive cannot be seen in nature struggling as in man for the ascendancy and step by step securing its purpose, we may know our view of nature is yet superficial and its language an unknown tongue. For the reason that compels the acknowledgment of a Divine Being as the Supreme Architect, equally forces upon us that when creation was finished, "God saw that it was good." And good can be predicated of nothing that is without a moral motive, or essentially selfish.

      The doctrine of the "unity of plan" in creation, which Mr. Huxley and other Evolutionists have urged and illustrated, and which is generally accepted, cannot be true if man is devel​oped by a process contrary to that under which other things are developed. Creation is not then essentially a unit, but a dual. Not only is it double at the foundation, but being double and antagonistic, there is no such thing as a cosmic process, giving "cosmic" its right meaning of harmonious.

      It seems that Mr. Huxley has finally worked out two antagonistic yet fundamental elements in nature, quite in keeping with the old notion of a personal Devil from eternity and a personal God, which to the serious can be none the less ludicrous.