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dawn of life," says Prof. Fiske, who is an ardent 

 evolutionist, "we see all things working together 

 towards the Evolution of the highest spiritual attri- 

 butes or man, we know, however the words may 

 stumble in which we try to say it, that God is 

 in the deepest sense a moral being." ' Elsewhere 

 the same writer truly observes : " The doctrine of 

 Evolution destroys the conception of the world as a 

 machine. It makes God our constant refuge and 

 support, and nature His true revelation." And again 

 he declares : " Though science must destroy myth- 

 ology, it can never destroy religion ; and to the 

 astronomer of the future, as well as to the Psalmist 

 of old, the heavens will declare the glory of God."* 

 Evolution does, indeed, to employ the words of 

 Carlyle, destroy the conception of " an absentee God, 

 sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the out- 

 side of His universe and seeing it go." 3 But it com- 

 pels us to recognize that "this fair universe, were it 

 in the meanest province thereof, is, in very deed, the 

 star-domed city of God ; that through every star, 

 through every grass-blade, and most, through every 

 living soul, the glory of a present God still beams." 4 



Objections Against New Theories. 



It is true, indeed, as we have already learned, 

 that Evolution has been decried, even by men of 



1 " The Idea of God," p. 167. 



2 " Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy," vol. II, p. 416. 



3 " Sartor Resartus," book II, chap. vil. 



4 Ibid., book III, chap. vin. 



