science lias in past times brought to light ; but if they be 
true, and there is far too much evidence in their favour for 
them to be disregarded or put on one side, the sooner they are 
courageously faced, and worked out to their logical issues, the 
better it will be for the interests of religion, which all good men 
must have at heart. And I cannot but believe that the outlook of 
modern science, which in the one direction enables us to trace the 
stream of human existence so far back into the past, and in the other 
gives us the promise of its more tranquil and beneficent course for 
the future, will eventually seem to be as far above the narrow views 
which have hitherto prevailed, as the knowledge of the man ex- 
ceeds that of the child ; and that thus the doctrine of the antiquity 
and derivative origin of man will be no exception to the rule, that 
the discoveries of science, however startling they may at lirst have 
appeared, have invariably revealed to mankind a grander as well as 
a juster appreciation of the universe and of its Almighty Creator. 
