...difficulties " ; f and at the close of the " Origin of Species " he had written, in the same spirit, " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one." f The Bible, no doubt, in its vivid consciousness of the omnipresence of God, speaks of everything...

...his belief in a Divine Creator. In the last chapter of his work On the Origin of Species, he says : " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume, should shock the religious feelings of any one." l He could not, of course, have made this assertion if he had believed that his theory involved a denial...

...glad to avail himself, as he tells us, of the support of an eminent theologian. Darwin writes x : ' I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone . . . A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learnt to see that...

...that Leibnitz formerly accused Newton of introducing "occult qualities and miracles into philosophy." I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery...

...of that grand sequence of events which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance." * "I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feeling of anyone. ... A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learnt...

...was also attacked by Leibnitz, " as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion." A celebrated author and divine has written to me that...gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a concep" tion of the Deity to believe that He created a few ori" ginal forms capable of self-development...

...modification in their structure. From «The Origin of Species." DARWIN'S CONCLUSION ON HIS THEORY AND RELIGION I SEE no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery...

...religious feeling, as the following quotation and his approval thereof from his book clearly shows. " A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of Deity to believe that he created a few original...

...was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion." A celebrated author and divine has written to me that "he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few...

...that the theory of natural selection does explain, the several large classes of facts above specified. I see no good reason why the views given in this volume...celebrated author and divine has written to me that che has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that...