PROPB88OR VI. V. 627 



other influential quarters a similar spirit is at work. In a 

 remarkable article published ; -or Kn 



Andrews in tin- September number of t! 



it-r five os, wo have this 



" If i ial, its first emergence into being is 



a miracle beside which all others dwi 



Hut. as has often been pointed .,m. the 

 DD thinkable; the ipooalypeeoi 



: nut of blank nonentity cannot be imagined;* iu 

 into order out of chaos when 'without form 

 and void" of lif. . "f the doc- 



trine <>f //> !ntion.' <e are all boltf words to 



be spoken before the moral philosophy class of a Scotch 

 university, while those I lia\ e underlined show a remark- 

 able freedom of dealing with the sacred text. They repeat 

 I n tn red to utter four years ago 

 regarding the Hook of Genesis. " Profoundly inter- 

 and indeed pathetic to me are those attempts of the opening 

 mind of man to appease its hunger for a Cause. But t he- 

 Book of (JeiiL'sis has no voice in scientific? questions. // /x 

 m, not (t tsrii-ntifir trmti**. In the former aspect it is 

 ifnl; in the latter it has been, ami it \\ill 

 continue to be, purely obstructive and hurtful." M\ agree- 

 ment with Professor Knight extends still further. "Does 

 the vital." he asks, " proceed by a still remoter develop- 

 ment from the non-vital? Or was it created by a fiat of 

 volition? Or "-and here he emphasizes his question 



m eternal 



' \ i< plii->. 



" how we can escape from the last alternat i\e." With the 

 whole force of my conviction I say, Nor do I, though our 

 modes of regarding the ' eternal constituent " may not be 



tine. 



When matter was defined by Descartes, he del 

 ately excluded the idea of force or motion from ith 

 butcs and from In- definition. I'.itension only was taken 

 into account. And, inasmuch as the in 

 to generate motion was assun 

 were referred t 1 cause. God, resident 01. 



of in: . In this c,.niie.-tion the 



friutor Knight will : I -'.u^li-h umrriap* 



. of %rbo- -.% In i l-\ thv 



power Umt mailo all Uiiuga of uotUiiig." 



