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earth and sea were made to bring forth birds and fishes, and man 

 was created out of the dust of the ground. Men of broader mind 

 like Kingsley and Farrar, and English and American broad 

 churchmen generally, took ground directly in Darwin's favor. 

 Even Whewell took pains to show that there might be such a 

 thing as a Darwinian argument for design in Nature ; and the 

 Rev. Samuel Houghton, of the Royal Society, gave interesting 

 suggestions of a teleological evolution. 



Both the great English universities received the new teaching 

 as a leaven ; at Oxford, in the very front of the High Church 

 party at Keble College, was elaborated a statement that the evo- 

 lution doctrine is " an advance in our theological thinking " ; and 

 Temple, Bishop of London, perhaps the most influential thinker 

 at present in the Anglican episcopate, accepted the new revelation 

 in the following words : " It seems something more majestic, more 

 befitting Him to whom a thousand years are as one day, thus to 

 impress his will once for all on his creation, and provide for all 

 the countless varieties by this one original impress, than by spe- 

 cial acts of creation to be perpetually modifying what he had pre- 

 viously made." 



In Scotland the Duke of Argyll, head and front of the ortho- 

 dox party, dissenting in many respects from Darwin's full con- 

 clusions, made concessions which disorganized the old position. 



Curiously enough, from the Roman Catholic Church, bitter as 

 some of its writers had been, now came argument to prove that 

 the Catholic faith does not prevent any one " from holding the 

 Darwinian theory," and especially a declaration from an author- 

 ity eminent among American Catholics a declaration which has 

 a very curious sound, but which it would be ungracious to find 

 fault with that " the doctrine of evolution is no more in oppo- 

 sition to the doctrine of the Catholic Church than is the Coper- 

 nican theory or that of Galileo." 



Here and there, indeed, men of science like Dawson, Mivart, 

 and Wigand, in view of theological considerations, have sought 

 to make conditions ; but the current is too strong, and we find 

 eminent theologians in every country ready to accept natural 

 selection as at least a very important part in the mechanism of 

 evolution. 



At the death of Darwin it was felt that there was but one 

 place in England where his body should be laid, and that this 

 place was next the grave of Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster 

 Abbey. The noble address of Canon Farrar at his funeral was 

 echoed from many pulpits in Europe and America, and theologi- 

 cal opposition as such was ended. Occasionally there came, it is 

 true, a survival of the old feeling ; the Rev. Dr. Laing referred to 

 the burial of Darwin in Westminster Abbey as " a proof that Eng- 



