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and aggregation, the formation of organisms, life, feeling, 

 thought, memory, love, and will. Even Professor Tyndall, 

 in spite of his opposition to Dr. Bastian, is fundamentally at 

 one with him, and, as we have seen, speaks of the genius of 

 Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raffaele, as latent and 

 potentially existing in the fires of the Sun, and being the 

 ultimate outcome of an unconscious primeval mist. 



It is not surprising then that all those who, for whatever 

 Evolution reason, are really hostile to the Christian revelation 

 rntucris- by took especial comfort from this result and outcome 

 (which appeared to them to be the necessary out 

 come) of the theory of Evolution. 



This is abundantly manifest in the writings of Strauss, 

 Vogt, Haeckel, and Biichner, and even in our own country 

 signs of a similar spirit in leading evolutionists have been 

 shown in no equivocal manner. We have indeed been ac 

 customed to hear again and again the assertion that men 

 of science differ from the devotees of theology, in that they 

 enter on their inquiries fequo animo, free from prejudice,* 

 and desirous only of truth. Believers have been warned, 

 usque ad nauseam, that a wish to believe vitiates all their ar 

 guments. But what weight can we attach to conclusions such 

 as those, e.g., of Professor Huxley, who tells us with regard to 

 the doctrine of Evolution that &quot; the position of complete and 

 irreconcilable antagonism which, in his opinion, it occupies 

 to the Church, is one of its greatest merits in my eyes T &quot; A 

 similar, though less striking, theological prejudice is also 

 exhibited by Mr. Darwin himself. He tells us himself, in 

 his Descent of Man, that in his Origin of Species his first 

 object was &quot; to show that species had not been separately 

 created ;&quot; and he consoles himself for admitted error by the 

 reflection that &quot; I have at least, as I hope, done good service 

 in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.&quot; f 



* Professor Tyndall in his Fragments of Science, p. 167, observes : 

 &quot; They have but one desire to know the truth. They have but one fear to 

 believe a lie.&quot; 



t I am indebted to Mr. Chuuncey Wright for calling my attention to this 

 remark, which had escaped my notice. 



