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_005195367	Gillis, James M. (James Martin), 1876-1957.	The church and modern thought	1935		.txt	text/plain	22276	933	67	Nature of Man explains that “man is a kind of miscarriage of the ape”. But the saddest, most tragic, most hopeless con- clusion, if there be no God but Evolution, is that of Bertrand Russell who speaks of “Omnipotent matter, blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, roll- ing on its relentless way,” and who has epitomized the pessimism inherent in the evolution-theory in a passage as eloquent as it is despondent: “Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave ; all the labors of the ages, all the devo- tion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day bright- ness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and the whole temple of Man’s achievement must in- evitably be buried beneath the debris of a uni- verse in ruins.” As a kind of fillip to that horrifying prophecy of the ultimate fate of man, H. G. Wells, the favorite spokesman of semi-educated worshippers at the shrine of Evolution, says that he looks upon the world as “a very dire and terrible world” and that hope has been all but extinguished from his heart.	cache/_005195367.txt	txt/_005195367.txt