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Raymond’s “Seven World ^Problems ” none of which have been 
solved by Haeckel or Spencer ; and I agree with his commentary on 
them. 
I also agree with him that “the first of philosophical interests is 
Truth ” ; and the teaching of Sir Michael Foster’s address at 
Dover, to which he refers, was made the basis of a sermon at the 
time delivered by me in All Saints Church, Brighton, and reported 
in the Brighton Herald. But Foster taught evolution-theory within 
limits. We shall all agree that “ ultimate Truth ” is synonymous 
with “ the wisdom of God.” That is many-sided ; in fact, according 
to the inspired dictum of St. Paul, “ many-coloured ” ( 7roAu7robaA,o? ) : 
upon which the great divine, Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of 
Lincoln, remarks, “So is God’s wisdom infinite in variety, richness, 
and beauty, adapting itself to the needs of man in every age, and 
of every creature in the world.” (Ep. ad Eplies. iii, v. 10, and 
Commentary , loc. cit.) 
Dr. W. Woods Smyth. — The authorities quoted by Professor 
Orchard as opposed to Evolution belong to the class of those who 
refused to accept the fact of the circulation of the blood. No 
physician at the time of the discovery who was over forty years of 
age accepted the truth of blood circulation. Professor Orchard 
should have given us the views of some of his authorities at a later 
date. Lyell and others changed their views. Thirty years after 
Darwin’s Origin of Species was published, he could have quoted 
Wallace, Huxley, Lyell, Vogt, Lubbock, Biichner, Rolle, etc., as 
accepting Evolution and the Evolution of man. To-day we must 
adduce in the same category, the Royal Society, the Geological 
Society, and the Linnean Society. 
We may dismiss the views of those who lived before the rise of 
Modern Science, or who were not influenced by Revelation, as of no 
value. To-day we are in the position somewhat of those who heard 
for the first time of Newton’s doctrine of Gravitation. Voltaire and 
the sceptical Encyclopedists hailed Newton’s discovery as showing 
the universe to be in the grip of natural laws and as enabling them 
to dispense with a Creator. What Newton did in the physical 
universe, Darwin has done in the realm of Life ; and no wonder the 
same misrepresentations have arisen. Neither Gravitation nor 
Evolution are to blame. Darwin says : — “ There is grandeur in this 
view of Life with its several powers having been originally breathed 
