To view the subject from the beginning it is necessary to realise that man is, on his own, primarily evil and corrupt. This state is not complete, and it has partly redeeming aspects to it, but it is predominant, and behind the veneer of an advancing civilisation are the factors of greed, hate, pride and thirst for power. These express themselves in familiar ways and periodically on a large scale, such as in totalitarianism, imperialism, and the events which lead up to and are performed in war T. H. Huxley, though agreeing with Christians on very few things, staled in his "Evolution and Ethics" that he was forced to share the Christian pessimism over human nature. Christians believe that man, uninfluenced by that which will now be briefly described, will retrogress and finally suffer complete extinction of body, spirit and soul. There is, however, the fact of this influence, which is the activity of a loving God to save man, from the destruction to which his own choice of attractive, but deadly, evils will lead.