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singularly unhappy and unjust in his 

 treatment of Professor Drummond. His 

 Remarks are thus worded " Mr. Drum- 

 mond is avowedly an Evolutionist. It is 

 impossible to be an Evolutionist, and to 

 believe that matter was created in the 

 sense of being called into existence out of 

 nothing. ' Evolution' is a word which 

 by the force of its own intrinsic 

 meaning nullifies creation. . . . Evolution- 

 ary Philosophy persists in maintaining 

 that by Natural Law minerals are 

 evolved into vegetables, beasts and men ; 

 and maintains also that men are raised 

 into spiritual being by a like operation of 

 the same law that has evolved them from 

 lower forms of existence" (pp. 124, 188). 



Professor Drummond may have antici- 

 pated such an accusation as likely to be 

 brought against him, since he virtually 

 replies to this apparent charge of Atheism 



in the following words : 



' The inorganic world is staked off from 

 the living world by barriers which have 

 never yet been crossed from within. No 



