206 E VOL UTION A ND DOGMA . 



operative in the onward march of animal and vege- 

 table life, and the processes which have characterized 

 organic development in its divers phases and epochs. 

 We may not be prepared to go the same lengths as 

 do Spencer, Huxley and Fiske, in the demands which 

 they make for Evolution as the one controlling agency 

 in the world of phenomena ; we may refuse assent to 

 the theories of Darwin, Mivart, Cope, Brooks, Weis- 

 mann, Nageli and others ; but it seems difficult, if 

 not impossible, to ignore the fact that some kind of 

 Evolution has obtained in the formation of the 

 material universe, and in the development of the 

 divers forms of life with which our earth is peopled. 

 The question now is : How are we to envisage 

 this process of Evolution, and what limits are we to 

 assign to it? Is it as universal in its action as it is 

 usually claimed to be, or, is the sphere of its activity 

 restricted and confined within certain definite, fixed 

 limits, beyond which it may not extend ? And then, 

 a far more important question comes to the fore, a 

 question to which all that has hitherto been said is 

 but a preamble a long one, it is true, but still only 

 a preamble and that is, how is faith affected by 

 Evolution, or, in other words, what is the attitude 

 of Dogma towards Evolution ? 



Evolution and Darwinism. "^j0T ~ 



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 To this last question various answers have been 



given, many of them contradictory, more of them 

 absurd, few of them satisfactory or philosophical, -//x 



All remember the storm that was raised against 

 Darwinism on its first appearance, a few decades 



