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whole principle and purport of the Development 

 Hypothesis, and how much it may be misrepresented 

 by its opponents, it is simply a legitimate effort of 

 science to unravel the relations of life, and connect 

 them, as it does other phenomena, with the operating 

 forces of the universe. 



And be it observed that however closely science 

 may connect these relations in the way of cause and 

 effect, the forces are merely the instruments through 

 which the Creator has chosen to operate, and are of 

 themselves nothing save upheld and directed by 

 Almighty power. The outcry of materialism, atheism, 

 and the like, by which the Development Hypothesis 

 has sometimes been assailed, is utterly pitiable, and all 

 the more that it is most frequently raised by those who 

 from their professional calUng ought to know best 

 that the cause of truth can never be advanced by 

 misrepresentation.* In seeking to apply the hypothesis 

 to the genesis of man, science is merely following out 

 those biological relations which unmistakably connect 

 him with the rest of the animal kingdom. If it be 



* As a specimen of this senseless outcry we may quote tlie 

 following from the newspaper report of lectures dehvered last 

 winter by an Edinhurgh Free Church Professor i — " After referring 

 to tlie change which had taken place of late in the development 

 theory, the lecturer said he should not shrink from calling it hy its 

 right name, and asked why they should te charged with a want of 

 charity, and with being the viotims of theological bias, in saying 



