100 
Darwin’s views were quite contrary to the Christian 
Faith. 
Darwin’s answer to the Jena student who applied to 
him saying: Tell me your creed, for by reading your 
works my own faith has perished ; speaks for itself, “ Sczence 
and Christ have nothing to do with each other ...as far 
as I am concerned I do not believe that any revelation has 
been made. With regard to a future life, every one must 
draw his own conclusion from vague and contradictory 
probabilities.” (Spectator, 1882.) 
The very substitution of Darwin’s expression, 
‘organism,’ in the place of the old word, ‘creatures,’ 
seems to warrant the fear that the Creator is being 
banished from his Creation. 
The inherent capacity, true toa limited extent, of 
each so called ‘organism’ to exercise ‘variatian’; and 
‘Natural selection,’ ‘ sexual’ and otherwise, to make it fittest 
to survive in the ‘struggle foy existence. |The extreme 
declaration of this, combined with the bold statement 
that there has never been Special Creation since protoplasm, 
if even then, never Creation of patys; but that the Prawn, 
the Elephant, the Spider, the Man, have all gradually 
been developed, or developed themselves, through the Geo- 
logical ages from protoplasm ; in obedience to an inherent 
power for variation, or law of necessity, this doctrine 
is finely touched in the Laureate’s latest volume: 
“ How far through all the brake 
That Nightingale is heard, 
What power, but the bird’s, could make 
This music in the bird.” 
We are asked to believe, when it is pointed out that 
there seems zone of this self-development now in pro- 
gress, that the organisms have reached their climax , that 
we live in the era of arrested development, for necessity 
no longer impels. 
