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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1515, 14 March 1901, Page 17

A lecture on “ Evolution and: Ethics ” was delivered last week at . the New Century Hall, . Kent terrace!, by ’the Rev AT. A. Eyaps. He reviewed the lecture of, Professor Huxley on thiis, su]b- ■ jepb, -and! combated the theory that man was part of the cosmic process, or what is known as the ordinary processes of nature. Man, we were told, he said, was a natural productpwoid of anything like spiritual hopes, and! much, of this spirit pervaded the literature of our day. This literature was described as artistic, but it seemed to him to be £ inartistic:', The higher- literature never forgot,’ as* Pascal had said; 1 thaf ’'’man was nobler than the'; uni verse. Huxley had declared that socidl progress meant the, checking of .the cosmic prdcessnt every and the substitution for it of another which might 1 Be called 4 the ethical process. Mr Evans described the ethical end of man, synonymous with the spiritual end of man, as the standpoint from which to view all the facts of time and space, and to co-operate with them,, and especially with that Eternal tßpint very soul as well as y'ery nature. Borne asked; )at ql.q&e-.';of the address, arid Mr Evans was a cordial vote of thanks. Mr W. MoLean presided.