Sir J. Arthur Thomson received his education at the uni- 

 versities of Edinburgh, Jena and Berlin. He has been lecturer 

 at the School of Medicine, Edinburgh ; v^^as Gifford Lecturer at 

 St. Andrews; Terry Lecturer at Yale University; and Morse 

 Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He 

 has issued many publications. Among the best known may be 

 mentioned : The Bible of Nature; Darwinism and Human Life; 

 Secrets of Animal Life; The Gospel of Evolution; Modern 

 Science; and The Outline of Science. Both Edinburgh and 

 McGill Universities have conferred on him the degree of LL.D. 

 Dr. Thomson has been interested in the implications of religion 

 in the field of science for more than twenty years. He has writ- 

 ten and lectured widely on the subject. At seventy years of age 

 he contributes this discussion out of a life filled with continuous 

 study, observation and reverence for the marvellous beneficence 

 and sequence he has discovered in the cosmic order. 



