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longer considered necessary that a scientific man 

 should be an Agnostic. 



Effects of the New Teaching. This new doctrine 

 of evolution has changed the whole aspect of Natural 

 Philosophy. We are now compelled to assume as 

 First Cause a power outside of nature, without which 

 the material universe could never have come into 

 existence. For, in the first place, if this universe 

 has in itself no power of rejuvenescence, it and its 

 Creator cannot be one and the same. The mind 

 which moves the universe cannot have come into 

 existence with it ; nor can they perish together. 

 And, secondly, while the origin of life on the earth 

 remains as evidence of discontinuity, it is impossible 

 to believe that the evolutionary process is due to an 

 uninterrupted original impulse, such as we must 

 suppose would result from an effort in nature to 

 evolve itself. And we must further believe that the 

 mind , which originated this- gradual development of 

 matter from the simple to the complex, must be 

 sufficiently powerful to direct the stupendous forces 

 of nature ; sufficiently intelligent to foresee their re- 

 sults when set in motion ; and sufficiently moral to- 

 have conceived the moral evolution of man. 



It is true, as Pantheists urge, that our only experi- 

 ence of mind is in connection with matter. But, so 

 far as we know, mind is connected only with one 

 kind of matter, called protoplasm, which cannot 

 possibly exist throughout the universe. Conse- 

 quently, mind must either be absent from large 

 portions of matter, or it must be associated with that 

 matter in some way which transcends our experi- 



