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Church have, in these latter days, not only relinquished the strug- 

 gle against science in this field, but have determined frankly and 

 manfully to make an alliance with it. In two very remarkable 

 lectures given in 1892 at the parish church of Rochdale, Wilson, 

 Archdeacon of Manchester, not only accepts Darwinism as true, 

 but works it with great argumentative power into a higher view 

 of Christianity ; and what is of great significance, these sermons 

 were published by the same Society for the Propagation of Chris- 

 tian Knowledge which only a few years previously had pub- 

 lished the most bitter attacks against the Darwinian theory. So, 

 too, during the year 1893, Prof. Henry Drummond, whose praise 

 is in all the dissenting churches, developed a similar view most 

 brilliantly in a series of lectures delivered before the American 

 Chautauqua Schools, and published in one of the most widespread 

 of English orthodox newspapers. 



Whatever additional factors may be added to natural selec- 

 tion and Darwin himself fully admitted that there might be 

 others the theory of an evolution process in the formation of the 

 universe and of animated Nature is established, and the old theory 

 of direct creation is gone forever. In place of it science has given 

 us conceptions far more noble, and opened the way to an argu- 

 ment for design infinitely more beautiful than any ever devel- 

 oped by theology.* 



* For reasons of the bitterness shown regarding the Darwinian hypothesis, see Reusch, 

 Bibel und Natur, vol. ii, pp. 46 et seq. For hostility in the United States toward the Dar- 

 winian theory, see among a multitude of writers the following : Dr. Charles Hodge, of 

 Princeton, monograph, What is Darwinism? New Yoik, 1874; also his Systematic The- 

 ology, New York, 1872, vol. ii, part 2, Anthropology. For a laudatory notice of the Rev. 

 E. F. Burr's demolition of evolution in his book Pater Mundi, see Monthly Religious Maga- 

 zine, Boston, May, 1873, p. 492; also The Light by which we see Light, or Nature and the 

 Scriptures, Vedder Lectures, 1875, Rutgers College, New York, 1875; also Positivism and 

 Evolutionism, in the American Catholic Quarterly, October, 1877, pp. 607, 619 ; and in the 

 same number, Professor Huxley and Evolution, by Rev. A. M. Kirsch, pp. 662, 664 ; The 

 Logic of Evolution, by Prof. Edward F. X. McSweeney, D. D., July, 1879, p. 561 ; Das 

 Hexaemeron und die Geologic, von P. Eirich, Pastor in Albany, N. Y., Lutherischer Con- 

 cordia-Verlag, St. Louis, Mo., 1878, pp. 81, 82, 84, 92-94 ; Evolutionism respecting Man 

 and the Bible, by John T. Duffield, of Princeton, January, 1878, Princeton Review, pp. 151, 

 153, 154, 158, 159, 160, 188; A Lecture on Evolution, before the Nineteenth Century Club 

 of New York, May 25, 1886, by ex-President Noah Porter, pp. 4, 26-29 ; Evolution or Not, 

 extract in the New York Weekly Sun, October 24, 1888, concerning the removal of Rev. 

 Dr. James Woodrow, Professor of Natural Science in the Columbia Theological Seminary 

 For the dealings of Spanish ecclesiastics with Dr. Chil and his Darwinian exposition, see the 

 Revue d'Anthropologie, cited in the Academy for April 6, 1878; see also the Catholic 

 World, xix, 433, A Discussion with an Infidel, directed against Dr. Louis Biichner and his 

 Kraft und Stoff ; also in Mind and Matter, by Rev. James Tait, of Canada, p. 66 ; in the 

 third edition the author bemoans the " horrible plaudits " that " have accompanied every 

 effort to establish man's brutal descent " ; also The Church Journal, New York, May 28, 

 1874. For the effort in favor of a theological evolution, see Rev. Samuel Houghton, F. R. S., 



