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necessity to God, as God is a necessity to the 

 Universe? the one eternal and ever-changing 

 under the superintendence of its eternal arid 

 unchangeable Lord. Even yet the finite ideas 

 of the ages of mediasval ignorance prevent our 

 realising the vast revelations of Himself which 

 God has vouchsafed to us by the light of 

 modern science. 



Yet the Darwinian hypothesis is far less de- 

 structive of the lingering anthropomorphism of 

 the popular theology than the now universally 

 accepted facts of Astronomy. Without enlarg- 

 ing further on this subject, it must be admitted 

 that men of science frequently exhibit the same 

 kind of incredulity in matters opposed to their 

 established convictions, as theologians. Not to 

 speak of still more recent instances, Lubbock * 

 remarks that the first account of human remains 

 having been found in company with those of 

 the gfeat extinct mammalia, was refused pub- 

 lication by the Geological Society as being too 

 incredible for belief; but it was merely the first 

 statement of what is now an established fact. 

 All honour to men like Galileo, Darwin, Wallace 



" Prehistoric Times," p. 306. 



