152 DARWINISM. 



SCIENCE AND RELIGION, 



SIB, One of your correspondents has pithily 

 observed, that if he has denounced Darwinism, it is 

 simply because he believes it to be untrue. Could 

 you not. Sir, in the interests of science and Christian 

 charity, prevail upon him to recal his denunciation, by 

 showing him that intellectual error requires not to be 

 denounced, but to be set right ? The prejudice against 

 Darwinism has undoubtedly arisen from a conflict real 

 or apparent between its conclusions and certain pas- 

 sages of Scripture. Such a prejudice arose against the 

 earlier advancement of astronomy and geology, and the 

 new conclusions arrived at were ' denounced in the in- 

 terests of Christian orthodoxy/ simply because those who 

 denounced them believed them to be untrue. It is a little 

 sad, though withal a little amusing, to observe how many 

 persons, eminent at once for piety and Protestantism, 

 inveigh against the Papal assumption of infallibility, 

 while assuming an infallibility of their own. They know 

 precisely what is Scripture doctrine and what is not. 

 They know exactly what measure of inspiration God has 

 been pleased to give to this writer or the other. At one 

 time they are sure that a science is not true, because the 

 Bible does not speak in accordance with the language 



