gnificance of the facts and the
deductions which science has set forth. Science is only to be met by
science. Theology cannot touch it. A beast and a fish cannot fight: one
must stay on land and the other must stay in the water. Religionists, on
the one hand, say that if science has discovered, or professes to have
discovered, anything at variance with the Mosaic cosmogony, it is not to
be believed. Scientific observers say on the other that if theology
teaches anything at variance with fact and logic, so much the worse for
theology. This attitude of the two will be maintained. It is natural,
and in a certain sense right, that it should be maintained. Each will
hold its position. Neither can accept the conclusions of the other or
its methods without both ceasing to be what they are. Notwithstanding
this difficulty, which is radical, the controversy will go on, until it
is decided, not by argument, but by time, experience, and the moral and
intellectual development of mankind.

A laborious contribution to the controversy has been made, by Clark
Braden,[8] who announces himself as president of Abingdon college,
Illinois. It is our own fault, probably, that we have never heard before
of the president or of the college. Neither he, however, nor his
publishers will fail through lack of confidence to make themselves
known, or because they have any misgivings as to the sufficiency of
their work. The author, in a prefatory note addressed "to reviewers and
critics," invites the most searching criticism of his book, but
earnestly requests that it shall be carefully read, and asks to have all
criticisms, particularly those which are adverse, sent to him, that they
may, as he says, "aid him in his search for truth." But plainly he has
little doubt that he has settled "the question of the hour," and what he
wishes is to enjoy the spectacle of science vainly struggling in his
giant grasp. His tone throughout the book is one of overweening
self-confidence. Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer, Carpenter, and the
rest are to be snuffed out by the president of Abingdon college,
Illinois; nay, their very methods of research and modes of reasoning are
to be swept into the intellectual dust-bin of that institution by his
besom. And in a long address which accompanies his book, in which the
publishers speak, but the style of which bears a remarkable resemblance
to that of Mr. Braden, it is pointed out with unction that while much
has been writt