THE Duke of Argyll, in a lecture he delivered under the auspices
of the Glasgow Young Men’s Institue, on What is Science? said he
never thought the theory of development due to Mr. Darwin in the
least degree inconsistent with Divine purpose and design; but
many scientific men in the world are more Darwinian than Darwin
himself was. I have seen some letters published in scientific
journals from which it was quite obvious that the writers
rejoiced in Darwin, simply because they thought that Darwin had
dispensed with God, and that he had discovered some process
entirely independent of design, which eliminated altogether the
idea of a personal Creator of the universe. Now it so happens
that I have some means of knowing that this was not the attitude
of Mr. Darwin’s own mind. In the last year of his life Mr.
Darwin did me the honour of calling upon me in my house in
London, and I had a long and very interesting conversation with
that distinguished observer of Nature. Darwin was above all
things an observer. He did