THE OEIGIK OF MAN 46 



Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. 

 How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things? 

 It makes a tremendous difference what a man tliinks 

 about his origin whether he looks up or down. Who 

 will say, after reading these words, that it is immaterial 

 what man thinks about his origin? Who will deny 

 that the acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis shuts 

 out the higher reasonings and the larger conceptions 

 of man? 



On the very brink of the grave, after he had ex- 

 tracted from his hypothesis all the good that there was 

 in it and all the benefit that it could confer, he is help- 

 lessly in the dark, and " cannot pretend to throw the 

 least light on such abstruse problems." When he be- 

 lieved in God, in the Bible, in Christ and in a future 

 life there were no mysteries that disturbed him, but a 

 guess with nothing in the universe to support it swept 

 him away from his moorings and left him in his old 

 age in the midst of mysteries that he thought insoluble. 

 He must content himself with Agnosticism. What 

 can Darwinism ever do to compensate any one for the 

 destruction of faith in God, in His Word, in His Son, 

 and of hope of immortality? 



It would seem sufficient to quote Darwin against 

 himself and to cite the confessed effect of the doctrine 

 as a sufficient reason for rejecting it, but the situation 

 is a very serious one and there is other evidence that 

 should be presented. 



James H. Leuba, a professor of Psychology in Bryn 

 Mawr College, Pennsylvania, wrote a book five years 

 ago, entitled "Belief in God and Immortality." It 



