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True cause of living changes ... ... ... ... 359 



Nothing proved against the idea of vital power, belief in God, 



argument of design, &c ... ... 359 



Acknowledgments claimed ... ... ... ... ... ... 360 



POSTSCRIPT. 



THE CONFESSION OF STRAUSS. 



" We must acknowledge we are no longer Christians" ... ... 361 



Strauss assails the inconsistency of some who agree with him ... 362 



What is a clear cosmical conception? 363 



Credulity as regards scientific assertion ... ... 363 



Strauss has been misled as regards scientific facts ... 364 



The laboratory of the wise and good... ... ... ... ... 365 



Strauss does not show how we are to prove an affirmation to be true 365 



Scientific facts do not disprove miracle ... ... 366 



Notions on which cosmic conception is based ... ... ... 366 



Birth of planets and living things ... .. 367 



Slimy jelly de profundis ... ... ... ... ... ... 368 



Chasm between living and non-living bridged by slimy jelly . . . 368 



Miracle destroyed by Bathybius ... ... ... 368 



Tendency of new doctrines ... 369 



Cosmos changing but constant ... ... ... 370 



The force of nature discovered by Darwin ... ... ... ... 370 



Cosmos of to-day not the cosmos of our fathers or that of our sons 370 

 Beginning of organic life ... ... ... ... ... ... 371 



Suggestion as to origin of life without miracle ... ... ... 371 



Strauss thinks motion transformed into life ... ..'. ... .-.371 



The all, the cosmos, the slimy heap of jelly ... ... ... 372 



Believers in Bathybius ... ... ... ... 372 



Every kind of bioplasm has a life history of its own . 373 



Generalized living matter ... ... ... ... ... ... 373 



Everything foreseen and prearranged by intelligence 374 



Doubts concerning religion. Proofs of materialism being untrue... 375 



New faith cannot be acted upon 375 



Natural selection or Deity ? 376 



Sir Charles Ly ell's remarks on Darwinism 376 



The choice between miracle and Darwin 376 



Darwin implies miracle . 377 



Darwin's primordial living matter ... 377 



Miracle cannot be dispensed with 377 



Miracle a part of Darwin's system 378 



Other ideas of evolution start from the impossible ... 378 



