IN MODERN SCIENCE, 



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of nature and should be in harmony with any 

 true explanation of it 



We may afifirm in this connection that agnos- 

 tic evolution reduces all our science to mere 

 evanescent anthropomorphic fancies; so that, 

 like a parasite, it first supports itself on the 

 strength and* substance of science, and then 

 strangles it to death. Physical science is a 

 product of our thinking as to external things. 

 If, therefore, the thinking brain and the ex- 

 ternal nature which it studies are both of them 

 the fortuitous products of blind tendencies in a 

 process of continuous flux and vicissitude, our 

 science can embody no elements of eternal 

 truth nor any conceptions as to the plans of 

 a higher creative reason. In that case it is ab- 

 solutely worthless, and a pure waste of time 

 and energy, except in so far as it may yield any 

 temporary material advantages. 



Further, the agnostic evolution thus leaves 

 us as orphans in the midst of a cold and insen- 

 sate nature. We are no longer dwellers in our 

 Father's house, beautiful and fitted for us^ but 

 are thrown into the midst of a hideous conflict 

 of dead forces, in which we must finally perish 

 and be annihilated. In a struggle so hopeless 

 it is a mere mockery to tell us that in miUioris 



