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Show 282 DARWINIAN A. and he fulfilled it well. But it is a mission which has to be - refulfilled again and again, as human thought changes, and human science develops. For if, in any age or country, the God who seems to be revealed by Nature seems also different from the God who is revealed by the then-popular religion, then that God and the religion which tells of that God will gradually cease to be believed in. "For the demands of reason-as none knew better than good Bishop Butler-must be and ought to be satisfied. A.nd, therefore, when a popular war arises between the reason of any generation and its theology, then it behooves the ministers of religion to inquire, with all humility and godly fear, on whose side lies the fault; whether the theology which they expound is all that it should be, or whether the reason of those who impugn it is all that it should be." Pronouncing it to be the duty of the naturalist to find out the how of things, and of the natural theologian to find out the why, Mr. Kingsley continues: "But if it be said, 'After all, there is no why; the doctrine of evolution, by doing away with the theory of creation, does away with that of final causes,' let us answer boldly, 'Not in the least.' We might accept all that Mr. Darwin, all that Prof. Huxley, all that other most able men have so learnedly and acutely written on physical science, and yet preserve our natural theology on the same basis as that on which Butler and Paley left it. That we should have to develop it I do not deny. ''Let us rather look with ca1mness, ~nd even with hope and good-will, on these new theories; they surely mark a tendency toward a more, not a less, Scriptural view of Nature. "Of old it was said by Him, without whom nothing is made, 'My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.' Shall we quarrel with Science if she should show how these words are true? What, in one word, should we have to say but this: 'We know of old that God was so wise that he could make all things ; but, behold, he is so much wiser than even that, that he can make all things make themselves?'" IX. CHARLES DARWIN : A SKETCH. (NATURE, Jwne 4, 1814, AOOOMP.ANYING A PORTRAIT.) T~o British naturalists, Robert Brown and Charles ?arwm, have, more than any others, impressed their mfl~ence upon science in this nineteenth centur • Unhke as these men and their works w ere an d arye , we may most readily subserve the present purpose in what w~ are called upon to say of the latter by briefly comparmg and contrasting the two. Robert Brown died sixteen years ago full f d . .fi , o years an smenti c ho~ors, and he seems to have finished, several years ear her, all the scientific work that he had undertaken. To the other, Charles Darwin, a fair mn:~.ber of productive years may yet remain, and are earnestly ~o~ed for .. Both enjoyed the great advantage of bemg all thmr lives long free from exacting pr~fessional duties or cares, and so were ahle in the ~am to apply themselves to research without distracti~ n and according to the~r bent. Both, at the beginmug of. the~r career, were attached to expeditions of exploratw~ 111 the southern hemisphere, where fney amas~ed rwh stores of observation and materials and probably struck out, while in the field some of the best ideas which they subsequently dev~loped. They worked in different fields and upon different methods. ' |