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mind that I oppose what Mr. Kingsley supports. " Let God 

 be true, and every man a liar ! " That is what Kingsley 

 says in support of what the doctrine is to him, namely : 

 and that is what I say in opposition to it. " Let us 

 know what is," he says again, " and, as old Socrates 

 has it, 7re<T0ai ra> \6<yro." That, too, I say, and perhaps 

 with a far other intensity of conviction. But in truth 

 the Xo7o<?, the reasoning, that Kingsley believes himself 

 to follow, is not at all Darwin's Xo709, Darwin's reasoning. 

 Primal forms created, capable of self-development into 

 all other forms, that is " the noble conception of Deity," 

 " the loftier thought " that is Charles Kingsley's ; but it 

 is neither the conception nor t^ie thought of Charles 

 Darwin. The whole infinite life around us, of plants, 

 and animals, and man, whether in sea, or earth, or air, 

 is but the product of so much physical necessity, mere 

 mechanical arrangement on mere mechanical chance. 

 All follows in this world, even for life, even for thought, 

 just as the wind that blows. There is natural law, 

 physical law ; and Mr. Darwin would know no other. 

 The origin of matter is insoluble ; but there it is, and it 

 has fallen of itself, mechanically, into globes, on which 

 globes there has come to be much mechanical evolution, 

 both animate and inanimate, but all of it, always, and. in 

 all respects, physical. Charles Kingsley postulates a 

 Deity postulates an evolution, certainly to him, as it 

 were " clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful ; " but 

 what in either respect does Charles Darwin not find 

 himself cease to postulate ? Charles Darwin is emphatic- 

 ally good; and it becomes very evident that he is 

 not always and with all men at ease in the unbelief 

 which he feels forced to. Sympathy is a need of Mr. 

 Darwin's own very nature ; and hence, in his own good- 

 ness and courtesy, he cannot help passages in his writing 

 that would bespeak, now and then, the appearance of 



