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in another place he admits that Darwin's 

 theory is only " an hypothesis," adding, 

 " After much consideration, and assufedly 

 with no bias against Mr. Darwin's views, 

 it is our clear conviction that as the 

 evidence stands, it is not absolutely proven 



that a group of animals has ever 



been originated by selection, whether 

 artificial or natural." 



More just and more discriminating 

 is Professor Tyndall's eulogy of Mr. 

 Darwin's powers as an investigator of 

 natural and scientific truth, while at the 

 same time he is convinced that some day 

 Mr. Darwin's hypothesis and theoretic 

 conceptions will " undergo modifications," 

 referring, I conclude, to those who more 

 or less ignore the dogmatic teaching of 

 Scripture on the subject. 



"If Darwin," says the professor, " re- 

 jects the notion of creative power acting 

 after human fashion, it is certainly not 

 because he is unacquainted with the 

 numberless exquisite adaptations, on which 

 this notion of a supernatural Artificer has 



