8 PREFACE 



as another, and one animal as well as another, and 

 His care extends alike to all. 



It is hoped that the object of this book may not 

 be misunderstood and that the spirit of reverence 

 which pervades its pages may not be overlooked. 

 I accept the Bible as a Divine Revelation, and take 

 the Mosaic description of creation as a basis of my 

 work. 



It is true that I continue where most theologians 

 leave off. Instead of limiting God's power and 

 goodness, I extend it. Yet I do not claim to have 

 discovered anything new, but only to expand the 

 thought of modern phenomena. What is now 

 known in science is the product of all ages. We of 

 to-day add our little mite to what is handed down 

 to us. 



Rome borrowed from Greece, Greece from 

 Egypt, and Egypt, like China, is lost in the mists of 

 historic antiquity, and is supposed to have obtained 

 the light of knowledge from some still earlier 

 civilizations. 



The twentieth century is the product of the nine- 

 teenth and the nineteenth of the eighteenth. No 

 scientist can grasp all the phenomena of a subject 

 at once ; the human faculties are not equal to such 



