IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES DARWIN 



the Darwinian theory by Agassiz ; and the same 

 objection will doubtless continue to be urged 

 against scientific explanations of natural phe- 

 nomena so long as there are men who fail to 

 comprehend the profoundly theistic and reli- 

 gious truth that the action of natural causes is 

 in itself the immediate action of the Deity. It 

 is interesting, however, to see that, as theolo- 

 gians are no longer frightened by the doctrine 

 of gravitation, so they are already beginning to 

 outgrow their dread of the doctrine />f nat- 

 ural selection. On the Sunday following Mr. 

 Darwin's death, Canon Liddon, at St. Paul's 

 Cathedral, and Canons Barry and Prothero, at 

 Westminster Abbey, agreed in referring to the 

 Darwinian theory as " not necessarily hostile to 

 the fundamental truths of religion." The effect 

 of Mr. Darwin's work has been, however, to re- 

 model the theological conceptions of the origin 

 and destiny of man which were current in for- 

 mer times. In this respect it has wrought a 

 revolution as great as that which Copernicus in- 

 augurated and Newton completed, and of very 

 much the same kind. Again has man been 

 rudely unseated from his imaginary throne in 

 the centre of the universe, but only that he 

 may learn to see in the universe and in human 

 life a richer and deeper meaning than he had 

 before suspected. Truly, he who unfolds to us 

 the way in which God works through the world 

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