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PROF. H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD, M.A., B.SC., ON 
this subject, and one of the foremost scientists of his day in Europe 
and America. 
“ Darwinism ” (as I contended two years ago) is “ not commen- 
surate with the facts,” and therefore cannot of itself form the basis 
of a philosophy ; but that is no reason why it should not express a 
generalisation true for a limited range of facts. But as Asa Gray 
points out,* “ It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken 
pains to understand the matter, that the true issue is not between 
Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity ; 
between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention or 
predicable first cause. It is really narrowed down to this, and on 
this line all maintainers of an affirmative may present an unbroken 
front ” (p. 89). 
Gray quotes Mosley thus : “ Intention in Nature having once 
existed, cannot cease operating; the test and amount of that 
intention is not the commencement, but the end ; not the first low 
organism, but the climax and consummation of the whole ” (ibid., 
p. 88). Again Gray remarks (ibid., p. 77): “All appears to have 
come to pass in the course of Nature, and therefore under second 
causes ; but what these are, or how connected and interfused with 
first cause, we know not now, perhaps shall never know.” And 
once more (ibid., p. 72) : “In each variation lies hidden the mystery 
of a beginning. We cannot tell why offspring should be like unto 
its parent ; how, then, should we know why it should sometimes be 
different 1 ” 
With Asa Gray may be mentioned George Romanes ; two 
examples of men who held the theory of Evolution ( with its 
limitations), and died Christian believers. In such company a 
Christian evolutionist may fairly resent being labelled with the 
vulgar conceit and the blasphemous rant of a Haeckel, or with the 
crude empiricism of a Spencer, the latter of which has taken in for 
a time a large portion of the reading public, so as to pass for a 
“ philosophy.” 
Professor Orchard has done well to enumerate Emil du Bois 
* See Natural Science and Beligion (Scribner, New York, 1891) ; 
being two lectures delivered to the Theological School of Yale College 
marked as much by philosophic thought and insight as' by the knowledge 
of a “ master ” in his own science. — A. I. 
