148 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



weigh or decide its value of usefulness. I have therefore 

 decided to give it to the world with all its faults and failings, 

 hoping that the controversy and thought of other minds may 

 be able to evolve a useful manhood out of my naked infant. 

 I shall feel content if the reader is willing to admit that I have 

 given him a logical description of an extraordinary and, I hope, 

 interesting and marvellous conception, leaving it to his mind 

 to use all or any part of it as his inclination, knowledge and 

 judgment ma}' determine. 



I am devoting this part of my book to defining the abstract 

 review of some of the most salient items that go to make up 

 the whole hypothesis and to the best of my ability to point 

 out their analogous relation to the misconstruction of past 

 ideas of Genesis. I shall then endeavour to compare the Table 

 of marriage of God's Trinity with the course of evolution in 

 Book II., and when this is done, I must leave it to my readers' 

 praise or condemnation to decide if it is worthy of the years 

 of study it would entail upon me to prove and perfect its con- 

 ception. In the meantime, if I can only succeed in demon- 

 strating that it has as honest or just a claim to possibility 

 (I won't say to probability, I leave that to my reader to 

 decide) as any other hypothesis hitherto adduced to solve some 

 if not all the problems or cases I have brought under review, 

 it may at least do some little good in advancing the onward 

 march of human thought along new roads of conception. 



