656 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



The laws by which destruction was brought about, were then considered, and the 

 manner in which species were created by the aid of this destructive power dis- 

 cussed • and how, under the operation of the law of heredity, surviving forms 

 found a temporary standing ground, until the greater law of variation again finally 

 removed them. 



Finally the speaker took up the objection that Mr. Darwin's views were de- 

 structive of Christianity and showed that they were in reality the strongest con- 

 firmation of Christianity's essential features. To his mind Christianity differed 

 from all ot^er systems of religion by insisting on the necessity of self-sacrifice. We 

 have "to. do the Father's will" regardless of all consequences to ourselves, as 

 the condition of happiness, and the Great Teacher himself sealed these doctrines 

 which shine from almost every page of the New Testament, by the Saviour offer-^ 

 ing up His own life. This is precisely what science, as he had endeavored to 

 trace it, was now teaching. A wiser power than any science had as yet been 

 able to fathom, was directing all things to some far away object, to us unknown ; 

 not for the individual benefit of anything, except in so far as it was in harmony 

 with this power, holding all things together for good in spite of the seeming 

 clashings of individual interest, and he was assured that the time would come 

 when evolutionists and especially those who advocated the theory of natural selec- 

 tion, would come to be regarded as true Christianity's warmest friends. — Natural- 

 isfs Monthly Bulletin. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



SCIENCE LETTER FROM PARIS. 



Paris, January 13, 1883. 



The doctrine which attributes all the diseases that men and animals labor 

 under, to the presence in their tissues of infiniment petits animals or vegetables, is 

 not exactly known, though popularly ascribed to M. Pasteur. Indeed at one 

 period M. Pasteur was hostile even to the doctrine. If the distinguished chemist 

 has not had the honor of the conception of the original idea, he has in a remark- 

 able manner, multiplied its appHcations, and rendered demonstrations evident to 

 minds obstinately rebel. Pasteur has shown materially, what was demonstrated 

 logically. This tiny animal or vegetable, called 7nicrobe by M. Sedillot, has en- 

 abled M. Pasteur to arrive at two practical conclusions. Firstly — that the mi- 

 crobes so far known to us, can be cultivated artificially in certain liquids. Sec- 

 ondly — by this artificial culture, the microbes can be attenuated in such a man- 

 ner, that, introduced into the organism of large animals, they there determine 

 either a malady very much less intense than that resulting from the natural con- 



