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darkness melts from this field or from that, begin 

 to tremble for the place of His abode ? What 

 needs altering in such finely-jealous souls is at 

 once their view of Nature and of God. Nature 

 is God's writing, and can only tell the truth ; God 

 is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. 



If by the accumulation of irresistible evidence 

 we are driven — may not one say permitted — to 

 accept Evolution as God's method in creation, it is 

 a mistaken policy to glory in what it cannot account 

 for. The reason why men grudge to Evolution 

 each of its fresh claims to show how things have 

 been made is the groundless fear that if we dis- 

 cover how they are made we minimize their divinity. 

 When things are known, that is to say, we conceive 

 them as natural, on Man's level ; when they are 

 unknown, we call them divine — as if our ignorance 

 of a thing were the stamp of its divinity. If God 

 is only to be left to the gaps in our knowledge, 

 where shall we be when these gaps are filled up? 

 And if they are never to be filled up, is God only 

 to be found in the dis-orders of the world ? Those 

 who yield to the temptation to reserve a point 

 here and there for special divine interposition are 

 apt to forget that this virtually excludes God from 

 the rest of the process. If God appears periodi- 

 cally, He disappears periodically. If He comes 



