7 Soc 7900.39.2 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NOV 17 1983 RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. CONTENTS. IMPORTANCE OF THE QUESTION DIFFERENT THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE, AND SPECIALLY OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL ORGANISMS. 1. The Scriptural Theory 2. The Pantheistic Theory PAGE 3 7 PROOF OF DARWIN'S DENIAL OF TELEOLOGY, FROM HIS OWN 53 PROOF FROM THE EXPOSITIONS OF HIS THEORY BY ITS AVOWED WHAT IS DARWINISM? THIS is a question which needs an answer. Great confusion and diversity of opinion prevail as to the real views of the man whose writings have agitated the whole world, scientific and religious. If a man says he is a Darwinian, many understand him to avow himself virtually an atheist; while another understands him as saying that he adopts some harmless form of the doctrine of evolution. This is a great evil. It is obviously useless to discuss any theory until we are agreed as to what that theory is. The question, therefore, What is Darwinism? must take precedence of all discussion of its merits. The great fact of experience is that the universe exists. The great problem which has ever pressed upon the human mind is to acWhat was its origin? changes we witness count for its existence. To what causes are the |
