62 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



truths, all its devout and sublime poetry, and 

 above all with the delineation of the character 

 of Christ, the Ihea tm> ISe&v, the ideal of maj- 

 esty and loveliness, before which the whole 

 world, believing and unbelieving, perforce 

 bows down in reverence. And when reason 

 has sufficiently subdued the imagination to 

 admit all this, then by the same theory we 

 may account for all the books in all languages 

 in all the libraries in the world. Thus we 

 should have Darwinism applied in the sphere 

 of literature. This is the theory which we 

 are told is to sweep away Christianity and the 

 Church ! 



Mr. Darwin gives the same unsatisfactory 

 account of the marvellous " contrivances " in 

 the vegetable world. In one species of Orchids, 

 the labellum or lower lip is hollowed into a 

 great bucket continually filled with water, se- 

 creted from two horns which stand above it ; 

 when the bucket is sufficiently filled, the water 

 flows out through a pipe or spout on one side. 

 The bees, which crowd into the flower for sake 

 of the nectar, jostle each other, so that some 

 fall into the water ; and their wings becoming 

 wet they are unable to fly, and are obliged to 

 crawl through the spout. In doing this they 



