184 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ July, 
ceptor of the creed commonly known as the Nicene as the 
exponent of the Christian faith.”’ Every one in my hearing 
will understand how this expression of faith is perfectly con- 
sistent with firm belief in Darwinism and evolution. Yet the 
manner in which it can be contorted to suit bias in the op- 
posite direction is very well illustrated by the fact that in a 
recent necrological notice the editor of a French va 
magazine asserts that Gray never accepted Darwinism an 
effectively opposed it. th 
Some of us are go constituted, mentally, that we wit 
difficulty realize in what we see most manifest in the ii 
in the misery, suffering and misfortune of individuals—wit 
hat 
“All nature is but art unknown to thee; 
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 
All discord, harmony not understood : 
1 partial evil, universal good!” 
Darwin’s nose, as he tells us, very nearly lost him - 
chance of a y yage around the world on H. M. S. Beagle, 
and in discussing the question of design he asked Sir Charles 
er answers ‘‘ God is love.’’ The age. 
oeey of life—of Causation—is as great as ever, and none a 
ause of what little light is shed for us upon the 
are profoundly in the dark regarding oe 
ys and manifestations. There are few ° 
. ineer 
7, OF as some grand controlling aang all 
he Past created and ordained that all things S be 
© an ultimate end, there is something alluring 10 
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