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43. In support of Lis views Le quotes Mr. Herbert Spencer’s 
article in the Fortnightly Review of May 1, 1870, p. 538, and 
then he continues: “No being could experience so complex 
an emotion (that of religious. devotion) until advanced in his 
intellectual and moral faculties to at least a moderately high 
level. Nevertheless, we see some distinct approach to this state 
of mind in the deep love of a dog for its master associated with 
complete submission, some fear, and perhaps some other feelings.” 
44. It will not be necessary for me to follow Mr. Darwin 
over the gulf which separates the animal from man. I need 
not dwell upon the fruitless effort to prove that reason has been 
evolved from the lower psychical attributes of brutes, nor need 
I stay to refute the theory that man’s consciousness, his 
language, his spiritual nature, and his immortality, are the 
result of “natural selection” and the “survival of the fittest.” 
45. There is perhaps nothing more astounding in the history 
of the human mind and the literature of our time than the 
fact that men of reputation and scholars can be found who hold 
that-a belief in such hypotheses as are included in Darwinism 
and evolution are consistent with Christianity and the revela- 
tion of Holy Scripture. 
46. The principal argument used by such men is that Mr. 
Darwin’s critics do not understand Mr. Darwin. But this is a 
poor subterfuge. The “ Darwinian calculus ” is by no means a 
difficult thing to solve. If Mr. Darwin has some arriere jpensee, 
which he merely foreshadows in ambiguous language, we shall, 
no doubt, be enlightened by-and-by. In the meantime we must 
remember that critics may themselves be deficient in the 
necessary knowledge to form a sound opinion upon the writings 
of Mr. Darwin’s opponents. 
47. Whether this be so or not, there can be no difficulty in 
comprehension by the meanest capacity of the following passage, 
which I requote : “ It is quite possible, as Mr. Tyler has clearly 
shown, that dreams may have given rise to the notion of spirits, 
and the belief in spiritual agencies* would easily pass into the 
belief in the existence of one or more gods.” 
48. It is childish to tell us that such a passage can be mis- 
understood, or mistaken for anything but a theory of the origin 
of religion which it professes to be. Is it possible to hold such 
opinions and to teach such doctrines consistently with a belief 
in revelation or of natural theology ? 
49. With regard to the utterances of Mr. Darwin’s followers 
I will now make some quotations and remarks. How far the 
evolution of the “formless to the formed; the inorganic to 
the organic; or blind force to conscious intellect and will," is 
consistent w 7 ith a belief in the Creator of the Bible, who, 
