XII.] THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 333 



species have been evolved by ordinary natural laws (for 

 the most part unknown) aided by the subordinate action 

 of " Natural Selection," and at the same time to remind 

 some readers that there is and can be absolutely nothing 

 in physical science which forbids them to regard those 

 natural laws as acting with the Divine concurrence and 

 in obedience to a creative fiat originally imposed on the 

 primeval Cosmos, " in the beginning," by its Creator, its 

 Upholder, and its Lord. 



