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chance, confide in your dictum that the doctrine of 
the derivative origin of one species from another can- 
not logically stop short of “blank materialism, de- 
structive both of science and religion, and even . . . 
to morals and social organization.” 
There will be “a heavy penalty to pay,” but there 
are two sides to the question as to who is to pay a part 
of it. What I said in the last paragraph of the 
Dubuque address “we need not here consider ”’! is, 
nevertheless, worthy of consideration. 
The time is not very distant, I imagine, when those 
who have protested against such reckless statements 
will be thought to have done some service to religion 
as well as to science. 
I trust that the foundations of theism and of the 
enmolee religion rest upon firmer soon than 
so-called “ Gmuratability of species.” 
1“ An able philosophical writer, Miss Frances Power Cobbe, has 
— and truthfully said 
‘*It is a singular fact that when we can find out how anything is 
done, our first conclusion seems to be, God did not do it. No matter 
we — but catch a glimpse of the wheels, its divine character disap- 
pears.’ 
“T agree with the writer that this first conclusion is premature and 
unworthy, I will add deplorable. Through what faults and infirmi- 
ties of dogmatism o 
came to be so thought, we need not here consider. Let us hope, and 
I erga Er that it is not to last; that the religious faith 
which survi survi 
penne reasonably, be Macias from faith in an Ordainer, which is 
the basis of religion.’’ — ‘‘ Sequoia and its History,” in Darwiniana, p- 
205. 
