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tion in the germinal matter before their utility or inutility 

 can be proved, and they emphasise the obstacles set up by 

 sexual reproduction against unlimited divergence from the 

 specific type. All these points are being developed in the dis 

 cussions now in progress, and they must, ere long, pro 

 foundly modify the views of biologists as to the existing 

 theories of evolution. 



APPENDIX II 



&amp;gt;R. McCOSH ON EVOLUTION 



THE/ venerable ex-president of Princeton has just issued 

 (185(0) a second edition of his little work, The Development 

 Hypothesis under d new name : The Religious Aspect of 

 Evolution. The work makes no serious attempt to prove 

 &e validity of any of those various and often conflicting 

 .theories of evolution, the insufficiency of which, regarded 

 in the light of scientific causation, I have endeavoured to 

 show in the preceding pages. It assumes them all as 

 established scientific results, and then proceeds to show 

 that they can be received up to a certain point without 

 destroying our belief in God. Perhaps it would be correct 

 to say that the actual thesis of the work is that the belief in 

 secondary causes in creation is perfectly consistent with a 

 belief in a Divine First Cause. This is very clearly stated, 

 and with much interesting illustration ; and as setting forth 

 this great principle the work is of value, and its use in this 

 respect will remain, even if all those imaginary and partial 

 causes of development on which it relies should be swept 

 away as of no scientific validity, and replaced by more 



