The Law of Evolution which I mentioned in the previous Note is but a Theory of Creation, an explanation of _how_ Nature has come to be what she is. New facts which future ages may discover may prove the theory to be either right or wrong. At present it is the best hypothesis--the best guess--because it accords best with known facts. It acts as a guide to knowable facts as well. It has shown that men cannot progress, indeed cannot long survive, if they fail to adapt themselves to the circumstances of their position, if they fail to fit into their environment which surrounds them like an envelope. Ceaseless change is the order of Nature. Continuous adaptation is the law of life. _Adaptability_ is therefore the _sine qua non_ of men's life and existence. The religion which suits them must also have the quality of adaptability. I hold Islam has this quality in an eminent degree and is therefore the most suitable religion. Please remember that I speak of Islam as taught by the Qur'an itself and not "Muhammadanism" as professed by _some_ so-called followers of the Prophet. You have to interpret the Qur'an[86] quite naturally as any other book or historic document, but not in the way in which _some_ Muhammadans do it with the aid of marvellous fictions and miraculous traditions. Islam has to resist (to use a big word) the _anthropomorphic_ tendency of the human mind, _viz._, the tendency to view abstract _qualities_ or agencies as persons having a separate existence as individual beings. IV. I have said that there is no inherent antagonism between Christianity and Islam _if_ and _when_ the sayings and doings of the founders of each are rightly viewed and understood in a simple and natural manner. Muhammad never ceased saying that he had come to attest and complete the mission of Jesus and his predecessors, who were God's messengers like himself.[87] The greatest and the best rule of human conduct which Jesus laid down was: "Love thy neighbour as thyself". You remember the well-known lines of Burns: O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us.