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in the early Oriental expression of Divine truth, where had been 

 the development ? The sufficient answer to ninety-nine out of a 

 hundred of the ordinary objections to the Bible, as the record of 

 a divine education of our race, is asked in that one word 

 development. And to what are we indebted for that potent 

 word, which, as with the wand of a magician, has at the same 

 moment so completely transformed our knowledge and dispelled 

 our difficulties ? To modern science, resolutely pursuing its 

 search for truth in spite of popular obloquy and alas ! that one 

 should have to say it in spite too often of theological denuncia- 

 tion (p. 53). 



Apart from its general importance, I read this 

 remarkable statement with the more pleasure, 

 since, however imperfectly I may have endeavoured 

 to illustrate the evolution of theology in a paper 

 published in the Nineteenth Century last year, 1 it 

 seems to me that in principle, at any rate, I may 

 hereafter claim high theological sanction for the 

 views there set forth. 



If theologians are henceforward prepared to re- 

 cognise the authority of secular science in the man- 

 ner and to the extent indicated in the Manchester 

 trilogy; if the distinguished prelates who offer 

 these terms are really plenipotentiaries, then, so 

 far as I may presume to speak on such a matter, 

 there will be no difficulty about concluding a per- 

 petual treaty of peace, and indeed of alliance, 

 between the high contracting powers, whose 

 history has hitherto been little more than a record 

 of continual warfare. But if the great Chancellor's 

 1 Eeprinted in Vol. IV. of this collection. 



