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tion and by means of great catastrophes, in the production of the 

 results, in the animate and inanimate world, which now offer to 

 the student of nature boundless scope for observation and inquiry." 

 — The Christian World. 



" Let us see, in the funeral honors paid within these holy pre- 

 cincts to our greatest naturalist, a happy trophy of the reconcilia- 

 tion between faith and science." — The Guardian. 



" That there is some truth in the theory of evolution, however, 

 most scientists, including those of Christian faith, believe, and 

 Mr. Darwin certainly has done much to make the facts plain ; but 

 no scientific principle established by him ever has undermined any 

 truth of the Gospel." — The Congregationalist. 



" Christian believers are found among the ranks of evolution- 

 ists without apparent prejudice to their faith. Professor Mivart, 

 the zoologist; Professor Asa Gray, the botanist; Professor Le 

 Conte and Professor Winchell, the geologists, may be named as 

 among these. — The Presbyterian. 



" In all his simple and noble life Mr. Darwin was influenced 

 by the profoundly religious conviction that nothing was beneath 

 the earnest study of man which had been worthy of the mighty 

 hand of God." — Canon Fakrak. 



" He has not one word to say against religion ; . . . by-and-by 

 it may be seen that he has done much to put religious faith as 

 well as scientific knowledge on a higher plane." — Independent. 



" A celebrated author and divine has written to me that ' he 

 has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception 

 of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable 

 of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe 

 that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused 

 by the action of his laws. 1 " — Origin of Species, page 422. 



" I am at the head of a college where to declare against it 

 [evolution] would perplex my best students. They would ask mo 

 which to give up, science or the Bible. ... It is but the evolu- 

 tion of Genesis when each ' brings forth after its kind.' Science 

 tells the same story. But what is the limit of the fixedness of the 

 law ? I believe that the evolution of new species is a question in 

 science, and not of religion. It should be left to scientific men." 

 — President McCosh. 



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