Art and Science 



Can we, however, see any signs as though 

 either Rome or England will stir hand or 

 foot to meet us ? Can any step be pointed 

 to as though either Church wished to make 

 things easier for men holding the opinions 

 held by the late Mr. Darwin, or by Mr. 

 Herbert Spencer and Professor Huxley ? 

 How can those who accept evolution with 

 any thoroughness accept such doctrines as the 

 Incarnation or the Redemption with any but 

 a quasi-allegorical and poetical interpretation ? 

 Can we conceivably accept these doctrines in 

 the literal sense in which the Church advances 

 them ? And can the leaders of the Church 

 be blind to the resistlessness of the current 

 that has set against those literal interpretations 

 which she seems to hug more and more closely 

 the more religious life is awakened at all ? 

 The clergyman is wanted as supplement- 

 ing the doctor and the lawyer in all civilised 

 communities ; these three keep watch on 

 one another, and prevent one another from 

 becoming too powerful. I, who distrust the 

 doctrinaire in science even more than the 



doctrinaire in religion, should view with dis- 



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