402 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



our race, when the knowledge of the universe was 

 much more circumscribed than it is at present. We 

 now regard Him as a Creator in the highest and 

 truest sense of the term ; as one who " protects and 

 governs by His Providence all things which He 

 hath made," and who " reacheth from end to end 

 mightily and ordereth all things sweetly." ' 



Science Not Omnipotent. 



But although science has made marvelous ad- 

 vances during recent times, especially during the 

 present century, and although Evolution has con- 

 tributed in a wonderful manner towards, unifying 

 what was before a heterogeneous mass of almost un- 

 intelligible facts, science is not omnipotent, nor is 

 Evolution competent to furnish a key to all the 

 mysteries of nature. To judge from the declarations 

 of some of the best known representatives of modern 

 thought, science was to replace religion and the 

 Church, and to do far more for the welfare and eleva- 

 tion of humanity than the Gospel and its ministers are 

 capable of effecting. Renan declares, that it is " sci- 

 ence which will ever furnish man with the sole means 

 of bettering his condition." Again he assures us, that 

 " to organize humanity scientifically is the last word 

 of modern science, its daring but legitimate aim."* 



lu Wisdom," viii, i, and " Council of the Vatican," chap. i. 



2 " La science restera toujours la satisfaction du plus haut 

 desir de notre nature, la curiosite; elle fournira toujours a 

 1'homme le seul moyen qu'il ait pour ameliorer son sort." 



"Organiser scientifiquement 1'humanite, tel est done le 

 dernier mot de la science moderne, telle est son audacieuse, 

 mais legitime pretension." " L'Avenir de la Science," p. 37. 



