230 REV. JAMES WHITE, M.A., ON 
the living creature,” the verb being in the causative voice; Hiphil 
presents to us more vividly the principles of evolution in the 
influence of environment than are to be found in whole pages of 
Darwin and Spencer. | 
Again, all our learned Societies support the doctrine of evolution 
and no scientific evolutionist of eminence believes in the idea of a 
“directivity.” It would be entirely opposed to the great scriptural 
principle (as I have shown in my writings) which makes life 
responsible for its own conduct, and even in degree, for its own 
organization. It would be repulsive to our mind to suppose that 
God created creatures specially red in tooth and claw to riot in 
raven. But I have shown that this vastly magnifies the moral 
responsibility of man which has been accumulating through long 
ages up to man’s estate at the summit of all life. 
Lastly, I have contributed to the Victoria Institute the important 
truth which it has been my privilege to urge upon the Church for 
thirty-seven years, namely, that the destruction of the unfit was the 
sacrifice of life for the evolution of living organisms. “Sacrifice ” is 
the word used by Herbert Spencer in this connection; so that man 
was created by a great ministry of animal sacrifice. Little wonder 
that the type of his redemption is shown in the animal sacrifice of 
the ceremonial law, and had its complete consummation in the great 
sacrifice of the ineffable Life of our Lord Jesus Christ.* 
Professor H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD said :—While thanking the 
Rey. author for his interesting paper, I am compelled to associate 
myself with the dissent so generally expressed from some of his 
conclusions. In the second sentence of the paper we read of 
Darwin’s “discovery of the laws of evolution and survival of the 
fittest, explaining the origin of species and the development of life’s 
various forms,” etc. I fail to see that an imagination is a ‘‘ discovery,” 
or how that which has no existence can have “laws,” or how such 
can “explain” anything, or how it is advisable to use the term 
‘development ” as synonymous with “evolution.” 
I must protest against any attempt to compare Darwin’s untrue 
* “The Bible and the Doctrine of Evolution. The Government of God, 
1882. Evolution explained and compared with the Bible, 1883. Divine 
Dual Government, 1899-1902-1905. The Bible in the Full Light of 
Modern Science, 1907.” Victoria Institute Transactions, vol. xxxviil, 215. 
