While men are investigating the origin of the race and the philosophy of human evolution—let them do it: it is for us, more empirically, to recognize the great fact that the whole creation in this world has been groaning and travailing in pain until now, and still is. The sorrows and sufferings of men are a theme that has engaged the thought of every moralist, of every philosopher, of every sentimentalist, the world over. Whatever may, however, be other philosophies, the New Testament has one of its own. That is the book that looks out primarily upon the whole world, and recognizes not alone the sinfulness of men, but the infirmities of the human race, the sorrows and the sufferings that perhaps cannot come under either of these other heads.