Article December 24, 1921 Issue

The Survival of the Fittest

ARTHUR H. FRAMHEIN

For many years, the world has accepted the theory that the development of the highest order of things depends upon the survival of the fittest. This has not been confined to the various forms of animal and vegetable life which we see all about us, but has been carried into the business and social world and in fact into almost every activity of human experience, upon the assumption that those who have exhibited the greatest amount of fitness along the line of brute strength or physical ability to endure opposition should survive at the expense of their weaker brothers. Moreover, mortal belief has argued that this is right, for should not the stronger forms of life thrive at the expense of the weaker!

Viewed in the light of Christian Science, all of God's ideas have their permanence in the divine Mind. They do not thrive at the expense of others, but the unfoldment of good blesses all, and good is constantly being unfolded to every individual just to the extent that he permits himself to be receptive to it. From the standpoint of absolute Truth, man is and always has been the spiritual idea of God, the reflection of divine Mind, Spirit. All things in the universe of Truth are created by and of Spirit, where no destructive element exists. Their permanence is therefore assured.

Only the right can endure, only that which is true can eventually survive. Ever since mortal mind has claimed to have a history of itself, material sense has striven to reverse the spiritual fact of everything that exists. In the human experience of things, those individuals whose thought has been touched by the glorious truth of Christian Science recognize that Jesus the Christ was indeed the Way-shower. He said when arraigned before Pontius Pilate: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." The truth regarding what? Surely, the truth of Principle and its idea. In doing this he not only taught and demonstrated the ever presence and all-power of God, Spirit, Soul, Truth, divine Principle, but also the instant availability of God's law. He was constantly reversing the testimony which material sense was presenting as real and as true, that which mankind was seemingly condemned to serve in hopeless bondage. Mrs. Eddy says on page 122 of Science and Health, "The material senses' reversal of the Science of Soul was practically exposed nineteen hundred years ago by the demonstrations of Jesus." Is it not our great work, then, as followers of Christ Jesus and as grateful students of Christian Science to reject and reverse every argument that error presents to us, to reverse as Jesus did the "material senses' reversal of the Science of Soul"?

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