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higher sentiments and aspirations, his self- 

 denying philanthropy, his enthusiasm for the 

 good and true, all the struggles and sufferings 

 of heroes and martyrs, not to speak of that 

 self-sacrifice which is the foundation of Chris- 

 tianity, are, in the view of the evolutionist, 

 mere loss and waste, failure in the struggle of 

 life. What does he give us in exchange ? An 

 endless pedigree of bestial ancestors, without 

 one gleam of high and holy tradition to enliven 

 the procession ; and for the future, the pros- 

 pect that the poor mass of protoplasm, which 

 constitutes the sum of our being, and which is 

 the sole gain of an indefinite struggle in the 

 past, must soon be resolved again into inferior 

 animals or dead matter. That men of thought 

 and culture should advocate such a philosophy, 

 argues either a strange mental hallucination, 

 or that the higher spiritual nature has been 

 wholly quenched within them. It is one of 

 the saddest of many sad spectacles which our 

 age presents." (p. 395) 



Relation of Darwinism to Religion. 



The consideration of that subject would lead 

 into the wide field of the relation between sci- 

 ence and religion. Into that field we lack com- 



