no THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 



these be, if they desire to arrive at a tenable philosophy 

 of the totahty of being and life. All truly scientific 

 conclusions pertain to one harmonious realm of truth, 

 and, therefore, in their ultimate explanation,' they are 

 mutually related. 



3. Among existing certainties of physical science 

 the present state of knowledge compels us to reckon 

 the doctrine that, so far as physical antecedents and 

 factors are concerned, the origin of the human species 

 is due to a natural process of variation in lower species, 

 the results of which have been transmitted, fixed, and 

 perpetuated in offspring. ^lan is declared to have a 

 brute ancestry, and to possess characters which have 

 been inherited through such ancestry. The more 

 precise explanations of this physical evolution which 

 have been advanced by Lamarck, Danvin, Weismann, 

 de Vries, and others stand on a lower level, and are not 

 to be regarded as scientific certainties. 



4. The course of biological investigation has accen- 

 tuated rather than militated against the conclusion 

 that the origin of fife, of inteUigence, and of the dis- 

 tinctive mental, moral, and spiritual characteristics of 

 mankind, require superphysical causation to account 

 for them; and the inference is justifiable that the theory 

 of physical evolution does not wholly explain or deter- 

 mine man's primitive state and moral history. 



In every science tvvo kinds of conclusions are dis- 

 coverable, including on the one hand those that appear 

 to be well established and are generally accepted, and, 

 on the other hand, those that are of speculative nature 



