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and he fulfilled it well. But it is a mission which has to be 

 refulfilled again and again, as human thought changes, and 

 human science develops. For if, in any age or country, the 

 God who seems to be revealed by Nature seems also different 

 from the God who is revealed by the then-popular religion, 

 then that God and the religion which tells of that God will 

 gradually cease to be believed in. 



"For the demands of reason as none knew better than 

 good Bishop Butler must be and ought to be satisfied. And, 

 therefore, when a popular war arises between the reason of 

 any generation and its theology, then it behooves the minis- 

 ters of religion to inquire, with all humility and godly fear, on 

 whose side lies the fault ; whether the theology which they ex- 

 pound is all that it should be, or whether the reason of those 

 who impugn it is all that it should be." 



Pronouncing it to be the duty of the naturalist to 

 find out the how of things, and of the natural theo- 

 logian to find out the why, Mr. Kingsley continues : 



"But if it be said, 'After all, there is no why; the doctrine 

 of evolution, by doing away with the theory of creation, does 

 away with that of final causes,' let us answer boldly, 'Not in 

 the least.' We might accept all that Mr. Darwin, all that Prof. 

 Huxley, all that other most able men have so learnedly and 

 acutely written on physical science, and yet preserve our natu- 

 ral theolopy on the same basis as that on which Butler and 

 Paley left it. That we should have to develop it I do not deny. 



"Let us rather look with calmness, and even with hope and 

 good-will, on these new theories; they surely mark a tendency 

 toward a more, not a less, Scriptural view of Nature. 



"Of old it was said by Him, without whom nothing is made, 

 ' My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.' Shall wo quarrel 

 with Science if she should show how these words are true? 

 ' What, in one word, should we have to say but this : ' We know 

 of old that God was so wise that he could make all things ; but, 

 behold, he is so much wiser than even that, that he can make 

 all things make themselves? ' " 



