Man in the Light of Evoltttion 



as we must do to-day. It teems with life and 

 vigor, courage, hope and faith, from cover to 

 cover. It is written, sometimes in tears and 

 blood, by an " apostolic succession of great 

 souls," who saw things as they were and are and 

 must be. It is militant and triumphant, yet with 

 the peace and calm of an incoming tide. No 

 wonder that that stout agnostic. Professor Hux- 

 ley, pleaded for its use as an instrument of 

 popular education, and believed that " the hu- 

 man race is not yet, possibly may never be, in 

 a position to dispense with it." ^ 



Just at present we are so busy discussing ques- 

 tions of text and authorship, dates and historical 

 setting, inerrancy and fallibility, and I know not 

 what other important questions — and they are 

 of vast importance — that we can give little heed 

 or thought to the vital content. But this stage, 

 I believe, will prove to be a " temporarily useful 

 eccentricity rather than a definitively triumphant 

 position," to borrow a phrase from Professor 

 James. Sensible common people and minds not 

 debauched by learning, ignorance, or conceit. 



1 See Huxley, T. H., "Some Controverted Questions,' 

 New York, 1873, pp. 38, 40, 72. 



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