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view: but I again point to the recent driving out of the Dar- 

 winian professors from the American college at Beirut, under the 

 direction of American Protestants, as an evidence that the old 

 spirit still exists ; no longer, indeed, seriously injurious to science, 

 but deeply injurious to religion.* 



* It is an interesting fact that one of the men thus driven out of the American college 

 at Beirut, for supposed adhesion to the doctrines of Darwin, has since become one of the 

 most influential editors at Cairo, carrying on a daily journal and two periodicals, and exer- 

 cising a far greater and wider influence upon thought in the East than ever before. What- 

 ever may be thought of the system of philosophy advocated by President McCosh at Prince- 

 ton, every thinking man must honor him for the large way in which he, at least, broke away 

 from the traditions of that center of thought ; prevented, so far as he was able, persecution 

 of scholars for holding to the Darwinian view ; and paved the way for the highest researches 

 in physical science in that university. For a most eloquent statement of the opposition of 

 modern physical science to mediaeval theological views, as shown in the case of Sir Isaac 

 Newton, see Dr. Thomas Chalmers, cited in Gore, Art of Scientific Discovery, London, 1878, 

 p. 247. 



