WHAT IS DARWINISM? 123 



which professes to have a creator somewhere 

 behind it, that is most popular ; though it is, 

 if possible, more unphilosophical than that 

 which professes to set out with absolute and 

 determined nonentity, or from self-existing star- 

 dust containing all the possibilities of the uni- 

 verse." 



In reference to the objection of evolutionists, 

 that the origin of every new species, on the 

 theistic doctrine, supposes " a miracle," an in- 

 tervention of the divine efficiency without the 

 agency of second causes, Principal Dawson 

 asks, " What is the actual statement of the 

 theory of creation as it may be held by a mod- 

 ern man of science ? Simply this : that all 

 things have been produced by the. Supreme 

 Creative will, acting either directly, or through 

 the agency of the forces and material of his 

 own production." (p. 340) 



He thus sums up his argument against the 

 doctrine of evolution, specially in its applica- 

 tion to man : " Finally, the evolutionist picture 

 wants some of the fairest lineaments of human- 

 ity, and cheats us with the semblance of man 

 without the reality. Shave and paint your 

 ape as you may, clothe him and set him up 

 upon his feet, still he fails greatly of the ' hu- 



