442 THE ASCENT OF MAN 



bolt from Eternity, came in the fulness of Time. 

 The attempt to prove an alibi for Christianity, to 

 show that it was in the skies till the Christian era 

 opened, is as fatal to its acceptance by Science 

 as it is useless for defence to Theology. What 

 emerges from Nature as the final result of Creation 

 is none other than that immortal principle which, 

 reinforced, is the instrument and end of the new 

 Creation. 



The attempt of Science, on the other hand, to 

 hold itself aloof from the later phases of develop- 

 ments which in their earlier stages it so devotes 

 itself to trace, is either ignorance or sheer affec- 

 tation. For that Altruism which we found strug- 

 gling to express itself throughout the whole course 

 of Nature, What is it ? " Altruism is the new and 

 very affected name for the old familiar things which 

 we used to call Charity, Philanthropy, and Love." ^ 

 Only by shutting its eyes can Science evade the 

 discovery of the roots of Christianity in every 

 province that it enters ; and when it does discover 

 them, it is only by disguising words that it can 

 succeed in disowning the relationship. There is 

 nothing unscientific in accepting that relationship; 

 there is much that is unscientific in dishonouring it. 

 The Will behind Evolution is not dead ; the heart 

 * Duke of Argyll, Edinburgh Rei/iew^ April, 1894. 



