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CHAPTER XIV. 



A POSTSCRIPT. 



&quot; This postscript is called for by an unamended republication by Pro 

 fessor Huxley of his criticism on the Genesis of Species, of which he in 

 part misapprehends, in part misrepresents the arguments. A Theist 

 should anticipate a revelation. The Christian revelation asserts crea 

 tion, but at the same time lays down principles which so harmonize 

 with Evolution that no contradiction can arise in this respect between 

 its doctrines and physical science. This harmony must be preordained.&quot; 



WITH the preceding chapter the argument followed in this 

 TMS ost- book comes to its natural close, but a circumstance, 



to be presently adverted to, seems to render it 

 for - desirable to extend our survey one step further. 



We have gathered from Nature in the foregoing chapters 

 the supreme lesson of the existence of a personal First 

 Cause of infinite power and wisdom and absolute goodness. 

 Reason ex- Beyond this, however, reason is unable to proceed 

 tiouf 16 unaided, though it shows us clearly that a revela 

 tion as to the nature of God, and concerning our relations with 

 and duties towards Him, is what is to be a priori expected 

 from a being of absolute goodness and power. This expectant 

 attitude is that which philosophy ought rationally to assume. 



The course, however, which modern philosophy has taken, 

 Modem phi- though for a time seeming to tend towards the 



losophybas . . . , . . . . . 



diverged anticipation oi revelation (one instiiying an ex- 



fromthis , v i j. j 1 



attitude. pectant attitude towards it), has diverged remark 

 ably in the opposite direction. 



The secular dispute between those who assert and those 

 who deny that all our ideas are modified sensations and no 

 more has undergone a strange transformation within the last 



