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so largely affects all present knowledge, and he must 
wrestle with the theory until it no longer hinders the 
hold of religion upon his life. He may be perfectly 
sure that he does not clearly understand both, but 
he must get them into reasonable concordance before 
he can be quite at peace. 
Truth is true no matter how it is acquired. There 
can be no doubt as to the essential truth of religion: 
its fruits proclaim its worth. There can be no doubt 
as to the essential truth of evolution; the clarity it 
has brought into the sciences is the evidence of the 
value of the conception. That it will persist in its 
present form, that it will be unchanged by later ad- 
ditions to our knowledge is of course unthinkable. It 
may be incomplete, it may be undeveloped, but so far 
as it goes it contains the truth. Under these condi- 
tions, how can we bring peace into our own mind? 
These two important provinces seem so often to be 
at variance. The difficulty may le in one of two 
places. In the first place, each truth may be stated 
in terms so peculiar to its own subject as to convey 
no meaning to the student of the other branch. There 
is a second, and move harassing possibility. The 
same words may be used by students in each branch 
but each side may put a different significance into the 
terms. Then each believes he understands the other, 
when he really does not. 
