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and that while species “ are more or less allied to 
each other, they exist in an order conformable to 
the plan of their creation.” His religious views, 
too, undoubtedly deep and sincere, were quite in 
harmony with his views as to the creation of 
species. He*saw God everywhere in Nature; and 
as his scientific knowledge deepened and widened, 
the more did the Creative Mind reveal itself to him 
in intelligent adaptation and design for the accom¬ 
plishment of specific ends. Everything, as it 
existed, was to him the direct result of an original 
forth-putting of Creative Power and design, while 
his reverence for that Power increased as his 
scientific knowledge extended and deepened. 
Although the form of his religious belief, like the 
form of his poetry, was very much that of the 
preceding century, its reality and intensity were 
of his time, and peculiarly his own individually. 
Would his restricted scientific views as to species, 
with his form of religious belief, have prevented 
him from accepting the Darwinian theories of 
evolution and natural selection? Would he have 
been able, with his ardent love of truth and his 
capacity for clear insight into Nature, to accept the 
Darwinian theory of evolutionary progressive 
creation, in place of the view that all things were 
made at a beginning out of nothing, each species, 
age after age, simply reproducing itself, although 
subject to much and constant variation within its 
specific limitations ? 
It is not improbable that he would have got 
