72
Dr. Buechner 84
Carl Vogt 85
Prof. Haeckel 87
Strauss 147

PROOF FROM THE OBJECTIONS URGED BY THE OPPONENTS OF
MR. DARWIN'S THEORY.
Duke of Argyll 96
Agassiz 101
Professor Janet 105
M. Flourens 108
Rev. Walter Mitchell 111
Principal Dawson 119

RELATION OF DARWINISM TO RELIGION 125

CAUSES OF THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION 126

THE EVOLUTION THEORY CONTRARY TO FACTS AND TO SCRIPTURE 141

SIR WILLIAM THOMSON ON TELEOLOGY 165

DR. ASA GRAY 174

DARWINISM TANTAMOUNT TO ATHEISM 177

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 account for its
existence. What was its origin? To what causes are the changes we
witness around us to be referred? As we are a part of the universe,
these questions concern ourselves. What are the origin, nature, and
destiny of man? Professor Huxley is right in saying, "The question of
questions for mankind--the problem which underlies all others, and is
more interesting than any other--is the ascertainment of the place which
Man occupies in nature and of his relation to the universe of things.
Whence our race has come, what are the limits of our power over natur