MODERN SCIENCE AND NATURAL RELIGION, 135 
NOTE. 
By tHE Eprvor. 
THE statement has often been made by the opponents of the 
Christian Religion,—that the progress of Science has given a death- 
blow to all belief in the truth of the Bible, and that men of Science 
no longer regard that book or the religious belief it inculcates. 
So false a statement might not be worthy of notice, but that it is 
repeated, in publications and on the platform, in almost every 
land, and it has been credited, not only by individuals in all classes, 
—especially the working classes,—but even by some charged with 
the regulation of education both at home and in our colonies: 
yet it is noteworthy that we find Professor Huxley, when lecturing 
at Liverpool on education (Feb. 16, 1883), mentioning the 
Bible as the first of the books which, in his opinion, our 
youth should study,—‘“I have said it before, and I repeat 
it here: If a man cannot get literary culture of the highest 
kind out of his Bible . . . he cannot get it out of any- 
thing.” Again, he wrote, in the Contemporary Review, Dec., 1870, 
“T must confess I -have been no less seriously perplexed to 
know by what practical measures the religious feeling, which is 
the essential basis of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present 
utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters, without the use of 
the Bible.” Again, Professor Tyndall, at Manchester, stated, “TI 
have, not sometimes, but often, in the spring-time . . . observed 
the general joy of opening life in nature ; and I have asked myself 
the question, Can it be that there is no being in nature that knows 
more about these things than I do? DoI, im my ignorance, re- 
present the highest knowledge of these things existing in the 
universe? Ladies and gentlemen, the man that puts that question 
fairly to himself, if he be not a shallow man, if he be a man capable 
of being penetrated by profound thought, will never answer the 
question by professing that creed of atheism which has been so 
lightly attributed to me.” Again, Dr. Darwin, in his Origin of 
Species, sixth edition, page 146, says, “ Have we any right to assume 
that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?” 
Also, Sir Charles Lyell, in Principles of Geology, tenth edition, page 
613, says, “‘In whatever directions we (geologists) pursue our re- 
searches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear 
proofs of a Creative Intelligence and of its foresight, wisdom, and 
power.” Pasteur, Sir R. I. Murchison, and many other leading men 
of science, have written to the same effect, but the authors here 
quoted are those whose works are most used (often unfairly enough) 
by the opponents of Religion. Again, Professor Max Miiller, 
speaking of language, says it may be a product of man’s nature, or 
of human art; but, he adds, “If it be the gift of God, it is God’s 
