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in an order, which is the basis of science, will 

 not — as it cannot reasonably — be dissevered 

 from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of 

 religion." ^ We thank God for that sentence. 

 It is the concluding sentence of Dr. Gray's 

 address as ex-President of " The American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science," 

 delivered August, 1872. 



Dr. Gray goes further. He says, " The 

 proposition that the things and events in nat- 

 ure were not designed to be so, if logically car- 

 ried out, is doubtless tantamount to atheism." 

 Again, " To us, a fortuitous Cosmos is simply 

 inconceivable. The alternative is a designed 



Cosmos If Mr. Darwin believes that the 



events which he supposes to have occurred 

 and the results we behold around us were un- 

 directed and undesigned ; or if the physicist 

 believes that the natural forces to which he 

 refers phenomena are uncaused and undi- 

 rected, no argument is needed to show that 

 such belief is atheistic." " 

 ' We have thus arrived at the answer to our 



' Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. Cambridge, 1873, p. 20. 



2 The Atlantic Monthly for October, 1860. The three articles 

 in the July, August, and October numbers of the Atlantic, on 

 this subject, have been reprinted with the name of Dr. Asa 

 Gray as their author. 



