THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



JUNE, 1894. 



NEW CHAPTERS IN THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE. 

 XIX. FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION. 

 By ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, LL.D., L. H.D., 



EX-PKESIDENT OF CORNELL UNIVEKSITT. 



PART IV. 

 THE FINAL EFFORT OF THEOLOGY. 



THE Origin of Species had come into the theological world 

 like a plow into an ant-hill. Everywhere those who were 

 thus rudely awakened from their old comfort and repose had 

 swarmed forth angry and confused. Reviews, sermons, books 

 light and heavy, came flying at the new thinker from all sides. 



The keynote was struck at once in the Quarterly Review by 

 Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. He declared that Darwin was 

 guilty of "a tendency to limit God's glory in creation"; that 

 " the principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible 

 with the word of God " ; that it " contradicts the revealed relations 

 of creation to its Creator" ; that it is " inconsistent with the full- 

 ness of his glory " ; that it is " a dishonoring view of Nature " ; 

 and the bishop ended by pointing Darwin's attention to " a simpler 

 explanation of the presence of these strange forms among the 

 works of God," that cause being " the fall of Adam." Nor did 

 the bishop's services end here ; at the meeting of the British As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science he again disported him- 

 self in the tide of popular applause. Referring to the ideas of 

 Darwin, who was absent on account of illness, the bishop in a 

 public speech congratulated himself that he was not descended 

 from a monkey. The reply came from Huxley, who said in sub- 

 stance : " If I had to choose, I would prefer to be a descendant of 



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