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tinguished German Catholic writer, Doctor C. Gutt- 

 ler, who asserts that " Darwin has eliminated neither 

 the concept of creation, nor that of design ; that, on 

 the contrary, he has ennobled both the one and the 

 other. He does not remove teleology, but merely 

 puts it farther back." ' 



Evolution and Science. 



But there are yet others to be heard from. Ac- 

 cording to Huxley, who is an avowed agnostic, the 

 " doctrine of Evolution is neither anti-theistic nor 

 theistic. It simply has no more to do with Theism 

 than the first book of Euclid has." a It will be ob- 

 served that with Huxley, Evolution is neither a hy- 

 pothesis nor a theory, but a doctrine. So is it with 

 many others of its advocates. It is no longer some- 

 thing whose truth may be questioned, but something 

 which has been established permanently on the solid 

 foundation of facts. It has, we are assured, success- 

 fully withstood all the ordeals of observation and 

 experiment, and is now to be counted among those 

 acquisitions of science which admit of positive dem- 

 onstration. Thus, a few years ago, in an address be- 

 fore the American Association for the Advancement 



1 " Lorenz Oken und sein Verhaltniss zur modernen Ent- 

 wickelungslehre," p. 129. 



" Transformismus Darwinianus," declares the Rev. J. Cor- 

 luy, S. J., "dicendus est sensui Scripturae obvio contradicere, 

 non tamen aperte textui sacro adversari ; tacet enim Scriptura 

 modum quo terra varietatem illam specierum produxerit, an 

 statim an decursu temporum, an cum specierum firmitate an 

 cum relativa duntaxat. Sed et de sensu disputari posset quern 

 Scriptura hie assignet nomini ~\ "Mp," Min., " Specilegium Dog- 

 matico-Biblicum," torn. I, p. 198. 



* " Life and Letters of Darwin," vol. I, p. 556. 



