WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



This is a question which needs an answer. 

 Great confusion and diversity of opinion pre- 

 vail as to the real views of the man whose 

 writings have agitated the whole world, sci- 

 entific and religious. If a man says he is a 

 Darwinian, many understand him to avow him- 

 self virtually an atheist ; while another under- 

 stands him as saying that he adopts some harm- 

 less form of the doctrine of evolution. This is 

 a great evil. 



It is obviously useless to discuss any theory 

 until we are agreed as to what that theory is. 

 The question, therefore, What is Darwinism? 

 must take precedence of all discussion of its 

 merits. 



The great fact of experience is that the uni- 

 verse exists. The great problem which has 

 ever pressed upon the human mind is to ac- 

 count for its existence. What was its origin ? 

 To what causes are the changes we witness 



