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soul introduced ? The philosopher or theologian of 

 this or that school may arbitrarily draw an imaginary 

 line here or there in either series, and the evolu- 

 tionist will not raise a finger to stop him. As long 

 as truth in the statement of fact, and logic in the 

 inference from observed fact are respected, there need 

 be no hostility between evolutionist and theologian. 

 The theologian is content in the case of individual 

 development from the Qgg to admit the facts of 

 individual evolution, and to make assumptions which 

 lie altogether outside the region of scientific inquiry. 

 So, too, it would seem only reasonable that he should 

 deal with the historical series, and frankly accept the 

 natural evolution of man from lower animals, declar- 

 ing dogmatically, if he so please, but not as an in- 

 ference of the same order as are the inferences of 

 science, that something called the soul arrived at 

 any point in the series which he may think suitable. 

 At the same time, it would appear to be sufficient, 

 even for the purposes of the theologian, to hold that 

 whatever the two above-mentioned series of living 

 things contain or imply, they do so as the result of a 

 natural and uniform process of development, that 

 there has been one " miracle " once and for all time. 

 It should not be a ground of offence to any school of 

 thinkers, that Darwinism, whilst leaving them free 

 scope, cannot be made actually contributory to the 

 support of their particular tenets. 



The difficulties which the theologian has to meet 



