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has spoken, appears to consider him as 

 nothing more or less than an avowed 

 Materalist, an euphemistic expression for a 

 rank Atheist. Mr. Newton more than once 

 remarks upon the professor's expressions 

 that " Matter is uncreatable and indestruc- 

 tible/' and that "the atoms of which the 

 visible universe is built up, bear distinct 

 marks of being manufactured articles" 

 (pp. 27, 189). 



Mr. Newton admits that these statements 

 may be so explained as not necessarily to 

 deny the existence of the Creator, and the 

 word " manufactured " may be applied to 

 God as well as to man; so that to charge 

 the professor with inculcating Atheism is 

 a grievous misunderstanding of his creed. 

 " When will it be seen,'' asks the professor, 

 "that the characteristic of the Christian 

 religion is its life that a true Theology 

 must begin with a Biology ? Theology is 

 the Science of God. When will men treat 

 God as inorganic ? " (p. 297). 



3. On the chief subject of the work, viz., 

 the doctrine of Evolution, Mr. Newton is 



