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Evolution can be understood in which it must be 

 understood, if it repose on a rational basis in 

 which, far from contributing to the propagation of 

 false views of nature and God, it is calculated to 

 render invaluable aid in the cause of both science 

 and religion. From being an agency for the pro- 

 mulgation of Monism, Materialism and Pantheism, 

 it should be converted into a power which makes 

 for righteousness and the exaltation of holy faith 

 and undying truth. 



It were puerile to imagine that religion has any- 

 thing to fear from the advance of science, or from 

 Evolution receiving all the prominence which the 

 facts in its favor will justify. Science and religion, 

 revelation and nature, mutually supplement one an- 

 other, and it would be against the best interests of 

 both religion and science to do aught that would 

 divorce them, or prevent their remaining the close 

 allies which Infinite Wisdom designed them to be. 

 " Logically regarded, the advance of science, far 

 from having weakened religion has immeasurably 

 strengthened it." So wrote shortly before his death 

 one who, during the best years of his life, was an 

 ardent Darwinian and an avowed agnostic. And 

 the same gifted votary of science declared, that " The 

 teleology of revelation supplements that of nature, 

 and so, to the spiritually minded man, they logically 

 and mutually corroborate one another." ' 



It behooves us to realize that in our age of doubt 

 and intellectual confusion, when so many seek in the 

 gloaming what is visible only in the effulgence of the 



1 " Thoughts on Religion," p. 179, by George Romanes. 

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