ABSTRACT
The Pessimistic interpretation of evolution has taught us the lesson that, if the author start without belief in the Divine government of the world, study of the process of evolution will not lead us to discern any Divine purpose in the process. Belief in religion cannot begin without faith in God to start with, just as belief in science or in morality is based not on evidence, but on faith. Society at the very beginning is no tabula rasa: the field is already largely occupied, and the direction of social evolution already largely determined, by that affection between parents and children without which neither society as a whole nor the individual as a unit could come into being or continue to exist. The evolution of man as a purely animal organism has been such that he begins life with a prolonged period of helpless infancy.
