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the need of a Creator God. From Sir Isaac 

 Newton to the present hour a long list of the most 

 famous scientists, French, English, Italian, Ger- 

 man, American, or of whatever nationality we 

 please to mention, might here be enumerated who 

 with Sir William Steward clearly recognize the 

 supreme truth that: "All knowledge must lead 

 up to one great result: that of an intelligent recog- 

 nition of the Creator in His works." 



Modern biologists, Lord Kelvin said in the 

 speech already quoted, are coming once more to 

 a "firm acceptance of a vital principle." They 

 are returning, by many and devious ways, to the 

 old truth taught all these years within the Chris- 

 tian schools. But they are still balking at a word 

 and prefer to call a "vital principle" what we 

 know by its Christian name, a "soul." 



They only know God in His works, but they are absolutely 

 forced by science to admit and to believe, with utter confidence, 

 in a directive power, in an influence other than physical, dynam- 

 ic and electrical forces. Cicero denied that these [the living 

 beings about us] could have come into existence by a fortuitous 

 concourse of atoms. There is nothing between absolute scien- 

 tific belief in creative power and the acceptance of the theory 

 of a fortuitous concourse of atoms. Is there anything so 

 absurd as to believe that a number of atoms by falling to- 

 gether of their own accord can make a sprig of moss, a mi- 

 crobe, a living animal? People think that, given a million of 

 years, these might come to pass. But they cannot think that 

 a million of millions of millions of years could give them un- 

 aided a beautiful world like ours. 16 



18 Times, 1. c. For clearness' sake the liberty has been taken 

 here of transposing the reporter's indirect discourse into the 



