Or the same question may be put in another way as “Mind _vs._ Mechanics in Nature.” In the evolution of thought on this subject at first all was _mind_, but lawless, capricious, like our own. Then one department after another of Nature was reduced to mechanical, physical, necessary law, until all have been or will be or conceivably may be thus reduced, and mind seems driven out of Nature entirely. The friends of religion in despair cry out for at least some small corner left for mind. Thus I find in recent numbers of an English scientific periodical, “Nature,” a discussion concerning mind as _one_ of the factors of evolution.[48] Is it not amusing, if it were not so sad?--God the Divine mind as _one of the factors_ of evolution! The true solution is very simple. All is mind or none; so also all is mechanics or none. It _is all mind through mechanics_. It is all mechanics from the outside; it is all mind from the inside. To science all is mechanics; to theology all is mind. It is the duty of philosophy to reconcile these two opposites by the higher view that mechanics is but the mode of operation of the Divine mind. There is only one form of evolution, viz., human progress, in which mind--but the _human_, not the Divine mind--is _one_ of the factors of evolution. But to think and speak thus of God in relation to Nature is to place him on the human plane. It is gross anthropomorphism.[49] VI. _Question of the Mode of Creation._ I might multiply examples almost without limit, of questions the solution of which depends on this one of the relation of God to Nature. I give one more--Creation. The creation of the universe _at once_--in the beginning--out of nothing--and then _rest ever since_. This old anthropomorphic idea is now replaced by that of continuous creation--unhasting, unresting, by an eternal process of evolution. For if the universal law of gravitation is the Divine mode of sustentation of the universe, the no less universal law of evolution is the Divine process of creation. CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE IDEA OF THE CHRIST. What think ye of Christ? This is indeed in many ways a test-question, and we ought frankly to meet it. I have feared heretofore to touch this question. I now only throw out some brief suggestions--scatter some seed-thoughts. Does Evolution have anything to say on this also? I think it does. This I proceed to show: