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own creating. . . . Our philosophers are vainly 

 exhibiting the futility of attempting to be wise above 

 that which is written. ' The ways of the Lord are 

 past finding out/ He giveth not an account of any 

 of His matters." 



He maintained that, as far as the great question 

 of the origin of species is concerned, no further 

 advance has been made beyond the fact that the 

 hand that made them is Divine, and that " whatso- 

 ever the Lord pleased, that did He in the earth, and 

 in the sea, and in all deep places." 



In reply to those who were of opinion that scien- 

 tific questions, such as those propounded by Darwin 

 were generally supposed to be, could only be dealt 

 with by men who had a special scientific training, 

 Mr. Morris considered that nothing of the kind was 

 necessary, but that any one of average ability was 

 quite competent to undertake a discussion on these 

 matters. 



To give at length his own contributions to these 

 discussions would be to write a book ; suffice it to 

 say that he continued throughout stoutly to main- 

 tain the position he first took up, namely, that which 

 has been here already indicated. The difficulties that 

 stood in the way of his conceding anything approach- 

 ing the demands which the ultimate outcome of the 

 Darwinian theory made upon his reason, to say 

 nothing of his faith, were to him, as I have already 

 stated, absolutely insuperable. Many of these diffi- 

 culties he adduced in his numerous published 

 pamphlets and other writings upon the subject. It 



