Man in the Light of Evoltttion 



error, and yet very tolerant toward his fallible 

 neighbors. He sets himself to find out what is 

 the new or forgotten truth which the opposing 

 party is emphasizing. When by careful anal- 

 ysis and study he has found it, he works with 

 patient wisdom to embody it in the views of his 

 fellows. 



He hears continually that some new heresy is 

 undermining men's confidence in all the old 

 arguments for great truths; that men will soon 

 cease to hold the old truth; that religion and 

 morality, church and society, are all going to the 

 dogs together. He recognizes that the con- 

 victions on which religion and society rest are 

 the result of racial experience, and that they are 

 indefinitely older than the arguments by which 

 they are now supposed to be supported. The 

 arguments may change or disappear without 

 affecting one particle of the strength or truth of 

 the conviction. " Nothing," says Balfour, *' so 

 quickly waxes old as apologetics, unless, perhaps, 

 it be criticism." ^ 



Our man of convictions sprung from the ex- 

 perience of the ages sees a wave of insanity pass 



1 Balfour, A. J., ** Foundations of Belief," p. 226. 



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