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which recognises behind all phenomena beneficent mind and will, 

 corresponding in kind to the ultimate facts of our own consciousness 

 which can choose its own way of making itself known in a measure 

 to its spiritual offspring through the spiritual intuitions of the 

 human mind." Nothing can be more appropriate as an illustration 

 of this than the words of Sir Isaac Newton in his Principia to the 

 third edition A.D. 1726, published by the Royal Society. 



Dr. Halley, the great mathematician and astronomer, has prefixed 

 a Latin deduction closing with these words : — 



Xec fas est propius mortali attingere Divos. 



I think in Roubiliac's statue of Xewton in Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, these words occur : — 



" Oc genus Jmmanum ingenis superavit." 

 Twickenham, Jan. U//z, 1906. 



From Rev. G. F. Whidborxe :— 



I very much regretted that I was obliged to leave the Meeting 

 before the discussion of my friend Dr. Irving's paper, as there was 

 much that interested me in it. 



There is, however, one remark that I should like to be permitted 

 to make even noM'. It seems to me that in any attempt to correlate 

 the " days " of Genesis vrith. cosmogonic periods it is well to look 

 out for coincident points. One such ma}^ perhaps be found in the 

 beginning of animal life. In Genesis we find this in the fifth day, 

 in Geology in or before the Cambrian period. Does not this 

 suggest that it may be that all the formations from the Cambrian 

 upwards may be included in the fifth and sixth days 1 If so. Geology 

 has absolutely no details to give us of the earlier days. In other 

 words, the Geologic Record may begin with a gap— an imperfection 

 which if Evolutionists realised, they might find very useful to them. 

 At all events, while the waters brought forth abundantly the 

 earliest forms of animal life we know, vegetable life appears 

 abruptly with the land, and it seems a little puzzling to imagine it 

 evolving from aquatics. May it have had a long unknown past 

 history before the Cambrian time 1 



From Mr. Henry Proctor, M.R.A.S. :— 



May I be permitted to add a few remarks to Dr. Irving's 

 excellent paper on " Evolutionary Law in the Creation Story of 

 Genesis " 1 



