1 88 Outlook to Nature 



facts. They teach us to accept the evidence of 

 experience and the objective demonstrations of 

 natural science, and to build on them our philoso- 

 phy of life, rather than to try to make experience 

 and evidence match a system of metaphysics. 



Evolution and religion. 



It is said that evolution gives us no new 

 faith for that which it destroys. Evolution is 

 not a faith ; it only releases us. It destroys 

 no faith, except as doctrines are shattered if 

 they do not match with experience or seem 

 reasonable in the light of our expanding knowl- 

 edge. It tends to strip the practice of religion 

 of its non-essentials. 



The organic evolution hypothesis is but one 

 of the results or expressions of the study of 

 science, and probably it is not the boldest ex- 

 pression that the world will see. Natural 

 science stands indisputably for truth in its own 

 realm, and, therefore, makes for truth in all 

 realms. It stands for absolute honesty and 

 frankness, and for the accumulating of evi- 

 dence. It stands for the fair, open, and 



