IN MODERN SCIENCE. 



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are 



and, secondly, superhuman intelligence. Even 

 Agnostic Evolution cannot wholly divest itself 

 of the idea of mind in nature. Its advocates 

 continually use terms implying contiivance 

 a lid plan when speaking of nature ; and 

 Spencer appears explicitly to admit that we 

 cannot divest ourselves of the notion of a 

 First Cause. Even those writers who seek 

 to shelter themselves under such vague and 

 unmeaning statements as that human intel- 

 ligence must be potentially present in atoms 

 or in the solar energy, are merely attributing 

 superhuman power and divinity to atoms and 

 forces. 



Nor can they escape by the magisterial de- 

 nunciation of such ideas as "anthropomorphic" 

 fancies. All science must in this sense be an-, 

 thropomorphic, for it consists of what nature 

 appears to us to be when viewed through the 

 medium of our senses, and of what we think 

 of nature as so presented to us. The only 

 difference is this — that if Agnostic Evolution 

 is true. Science itself only represents a certain 

 stage of the development, and can have no 

 actual or permanent truth ; while, if the theistic 

 view is correct, then the fact that man himself 

 belongs to the unity of nature and is in har- 



