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the need of a Creator God. From Sir Isaac 

 Newton to the present hour a long list of the most 

 famous scientists, French, English, Italian, Ger 

 man, American, or of whatever nationality we 

 please to mention, might here be enumerated who 

 with Sir William Steward clearly recognize the 

 supreme truth that: &quot;All knowledge must lead 

 up to one great result: that of an intelligent recog 

 nition of the Creator in His works.&quot; 



Modern biologists, Lord Kelvin said in the 

 speech already quoted, are coming once more to 

 a &quot;firm acceptance of a vital principle.&quot; They 

 are returning, by many and devious ways, to the 

 old truth taught all these years within the Chris 

 tian schools. But they are still balking at a word 

 and prefer to call a &quot;vital principle&quot; what we 

 know by its Christian name, a &quot;soul.&quot; 



They only know God in His works, but they are absolutely 

 forced by science to admit and to believe, with utter confidence, 

 in a directive power, in an influence other than physical, dynam 

 ic and electrical forces. Cicero denied that these [the living 

 beings about us] could have come into existence by a fortuitous 

 concourse of atoms. There is nothing between absolute scien 

 tific belief in creative power and the acceptance of the theory 

 of a fortuitous concourse of atoms. Is there anything so- 

 absurd as to believe that a number of atoms by falling to 

 gether of their own accord can make a sprig of moss, a mi 

 crobe, a living animal? People think that, given a million of 

 years, these might come to pass. But they cannot think that 

 a million of millions of millions of years could give them un 

 aided a beautiful world like ours. 16 



15 Times, 1. c. For clearness sake the liberty has been taken 

 here of transposing the reporter s indirect discourse into the 



