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son, long after Darwin had launched his revolution- 
ary doctrine of our animal origin, putting man in the 
same zoUlogical scheme as the lower orders. 
We are slow to adjust our minds to the revelations 
of science, they have been so long adjusted toa revel- 
ation, so-called, of an entirely different character. 
It gives them a wrench more or less violent when we 
try to make them at home and at their ease amid 
these new and startling disclosures. To many good 
people evolution seems an ungodly doctrine, like 
setting up a remorseless logic in the place of an om- 
nipresent Creator. But there is no help for it. Sci- 
ence has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little 
anthropomorphic notion of things into the great 
out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get 
used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. 
Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it. 
When we accepted Newton’s discovery of the 
force called gravitation, we virtually surrendered 
ourselves to the enemy, and started upon a. road, 
the road of natural causation, that traverses the 
whole system of created things. We cannot turn 
back; we may lie down by the roadside and dream 
our old dreams, but our children and their children 
will press on, and will be exhilarated by the journey. 
It is at first sight an unpalatable truth that evo- 
lution confronts us with, and it requires courage 
calmly to face it. But it is in perfect keeping with 
the whole career of physical science, which is forever 
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