Lucifer. A Theosophical Magazine. June 15th 1893

On the WatcTower One of the clearest and most emphatic pronouncements that I have ever read againq the application of the principle of the Survival of the Fittest to the evolution of man comes from Dr. [...] Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist but of those who are ethically the best. [...] Bowdler Sharpe of the Natural History Museum lecturing under the title of " The Geographical Distribution of Birds " 'set himself to the elabOration of a Theory of the geography of the geological ages of the past pointing to the existence of a great Antarctic continent basking in a tropical sun at a time when Europe Asia and North America were locked up in the icy fetters of the glacial perio [...] The giving birth to the Son is the work of the Father and the creation of the world is the work of the trinity. [...] Nevertheless a distinction must be made between the direct birth of the Son and the indirect creation of the creatures; for the Son remains essentially within and coexistent with the Father but the creature retains its divine essentiality only in regard to the eternal idea which is the foundation of its being.