22 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



Now that the smoke of battle is beginning to 

 vanish, and that the participants in the contest have 

 time to reckon results and to look back to the causes 

 which precipitated the struggle, it is found, and I 

 think generally conceded, that certain of the repre- 

 sentatives of science were the ones who brought on 

 an imbroglio for which there was not the slightest 

 justification. But it is the old story over again 

 hatred of religion concealed behind some new dis- 

 covery of science or enveloped in some theory that, 

 for the nonce, was raised to the dignity of an indis- 

 putable dogma. It was not, it is true, so much the 

 chief representatives of science who were to blame 

 as some of their ill-advised assecla, who saw in the 

 new teachings an opportunity of achieving notoriety, 

 and, at the same time, of venting their spleen against 

 the Church and casting obloquy on religion and 

 Scripture. 



