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that is daily becoming more evident and remarkable. 

 But what Greek philosophy faintly discerned, and 

 what Evolution distinctly enunciates, is rendered 

 gloriously manifest by the declaration of revealed 

 truth, and by the doctrines of Him who is the Light 

 of the World. 



Science and Evolution tell us of the transcend- 

 ence and immanence of the First Cause, of the Cause 

 of causes, the Author of all the order and beauty 

 in the world, but it is revelation which furnishes us 

 with the strongest evidence of the relations between 

 the natural and supernatural orders, and brings out 

 in the boldest relief the absolute dependence of the 

 creature on its Maker. It is faith which teaches us 

 how God "binds all together into Himself;" how 

 He quickens and sustains "each thing separately, 

 and all as collected in one." 



I can, indeed, no better express the ideas which 

 Evolution so beautifully shadows forth, nor can I 

 more happily conclude this long discussion than by 

 appropriating the words used long ago by that noble 

 champion of the faith, St. Athanasius. "As the 

 musician," says the great Alexandrine Doctor, in his 

 " Oratio Contra Gentiles," " having tuned his lyre, and 

 harmonized together the high with the low notes, 

 and the middle notes with the extremes, makes the 

 resulting music one ; so the Wisdom of God, grasp- 

 ing the universe like a lyre, blending the things of 

 air with those of earth, and the things of heaven 

 with those of air, binding together the whole and 

 the parts, and ordering all by His counsel and His 

 will, makes the world itself and its appointed order 



