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the cardinal tenets of nihilists, and their device is : 

 " Neither God, nor master," Ni Dieu, ni maitre. 

 It is at the bottom of the philosophy of the Krapot- 

 kins and Rclus, who " see in the hive and the 

 ant-hill the only fundamental rule of right and 

 wrong, although bees destroy one class of their 

 number and ants are as warlike as Zulus." And we 

 all remember how Vaillant, the bomb-thrower in the 

 Chamber of Deputies, boastfully posed as the logical 

 executant of the ideas of the Darwins and the 

 Spencers, whose teachings, he contended, he was but 

 carrying out to their legitimate conclusions. 1 



Evolution and Faith. 



But all evolutionists have not entertained, and 

 do not entertain, the same opinions as those just 

 mentioned. America's great botanist, Prof. Asa 

 Gray, was not so minded. One of the earliest and 

 most valiant defenders of Darwinism, as well as a 

 professed Christian believer, he maintained that 

 there is nothing in Evolution, or Darwinism, which 

 is incompatible with Theism. In an interesting 

 chapter on Evolution and Theology, in his " Dar- 

 winiana," 1 he gives it as his opinion, arrived at after 

 long consideration, that " Mr. Darwin has no atheis- 

 tical intent, and that, as respects the test question 

 of design in nature, his view may be made clear to 

 the theological mind by likening it to that of the 



1 Ravachol, another dynamitard, of the same school as 

 Vaillant, confessed on his way to the guillotine : "Si favais cru 

 en Diai, je n'aurais fait ce que fai fait" 



2 P. 258. 



