DECEMBER, 29, 1899.] 
and the Christian religion a dream. And 
later, it was said, if physical and vital 
forces are correlated with each other, there 
is no soul, no distinction of right and 
wrong, and no immortality. And again it 
was said, if species originate by evolution, 
and not by special creation, there is no 
God. So it had been said centuries before, 
if the earth revolves around the sun, Chris- 
tian faith must be abandoned as a super- 
stition. But in the nineteenth century, 
as in the sixteenth, the scientific con- 
clusions won their way to universal ac- 
ceptance, and Christian faith survived. 
It showed a plasticity which enabled it to 
adapt itself to the changing environment. 
The magically inerrant Bible may be aban- 
doned, and leave intact the faith of the 
church in a divine revelation. The cor- 
relation of forces acting in the human 
cerebrum with those of inorganic nature 
may be freely admitted ; and yet we may 
hold that there are other forms of causation 
in the universe than physical energy, and 
that the inexpugnable belief of moral re- 
sponsibility is more valid than the strongest 
induction. The ‘carpenter God’ of the 
older natural theology may vanish from a 
universe, which we have come to regard as 
a growth and not a building; but there 
remains the immanent Intelligence 
‘* Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 
And the round ocean, and the living air, 
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;’’— 
the God in whom ‘ we live and move and 
have our being.’ 
The church has learned wisdom. The 
persecution of Galileo is not likely to be 
repeated, nor even the milder forms of 
persecution which assailed the geologists 
at the beginning, and the evolutionists in 
the middle, of our century. And science, 
too, has learned something. In all its 
wealth of discovery, it recognizes more 
clearly than ever before the fathomless 
SCIENCE. 
951 
abysses of the unknown and unknowable. 
It stands with unsandaled feet in the 
presence of mysteries that transcend human 
thought. Religion never so tolerant. Sci- 
ence never so reverent. Nearer than ever 
before seems the time when all souls that 
are loyal to truth and goodness shall find 
fellowship in freedom of faith and in ser- 
vice of love. 
Wm. Nort Rice. 
RESULTS OF THE SECOND BOTTEGO EXPE- 
DITION INTO EASTERN AFRICA.* 
Unper the auspices of the Italian Geo- 
graphical Society, whose President signs 
the preface, the survivors of the Second 
BottegO Expedition into Eastern Africa 
have prepared and published a narrative of — 
their arduous journey, and an account of 
the results achieved at the cost of two 
valuable lives. The volume is well written 
and profusely illustrated—it is, moreover, 
accompanied by a series of clearly drawn 
maps of the country traversed, much of 
which had been previously unvisited by 
European explorers. 
On his second expedition Vittorio Bot- 
tego, accompanied by three valiant assist- 
ants—Lamberto Vannutelli, Lieutenant in 
the Royal Navy; Carlo Citerni, of the 
Italian Army, and Dr. Maurizio Sacchi, 
leff Naples on the 38d of June, 1895, and 
reached Brava on the Southern Somali 
coast on the 1st of October of that year. 
Ten days later the explorers marched out 
of Brava with a caravan of 250 Ascaris, 
and on November 18th reached the out- 
skirts of Lugh, an important emporium of 
trade in Southern Somaliland, situated on 
the River Juba in about 3° north latitude, 
which had been visited by Bottegd on his 
first expedition. Lugh, it was found was 
*L’Omo. Viaggio di esplorazione nell’ Africa 
Orientale narrato da L. Vannutellie C. Citerni. 
Sotto gli auspici della Societaé Geographica Italiana. 
Milano, 1899. 
