64 SSAYS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 



changed, physical and intellectual development 

 still went on, but the progress of mankind in that 

 knowledge of God, which alone can give a unity to 

 our growing knowledge of nature and of man, was 

 arrested. And it needed that He Who once had 

 raised up man to bear His likeness should Himself 

 provide for his recovery, and raise up a people who 

 should be " a sacred school for the knowledge of 

 God," and prepare the world for the revelation of 

 the Son. 



We are not concerned with the question of the 

 evidence of the Fall, but with the question how the 

 Christian belief in a moral change for the worse, 

 happening at a definite time, and yet affecting the 

 whole human race, is consistent with what science 

 has to tell us about evolution. We are here on 

 ground where natural science can help us little. 

 Moral facts cannot be put under the microscope. 

 And even if the Fall has left its mark on human 

 nature in the disorder and loss of harmony of its 

 parts, science cannot trace this back to the Fall, 

 for it cannot compare man, as he is, with man as 

 he came forth from his Creator's Hand. But the 

 history alike of moral science and of religions 

 bears testimony to the existence of a struggle, an 

 antagonism, a disorder in human nature, and to 

 the belief that this disorder is not natural to man, 

 and could not have been meant by God. And a 

 real science of man must some day face the fact, 



