e History and Theory of Vitalism_, p. 140.]

[Footnote 5: _Unconscious Memory._ Fifield. 1910.]

[Footnote 6: Those who desire further information may be
referred to _A Century of Scientific Thought_, by the present
writer. Burns & Oates.]

[Footnote 7: _Op. cit._, pp. 137-8.]

[Footnote 8: _The Philosophy of Biology_, p. 64.]

[Footnote 9: In an article in the volume _Darwin and Modern
Science_, p. 100.]

[Footnote 10: _Op. cit._, p. 319.]

[Footnote 11: _Op. cit._, pp. 238-9.]

[Footnote 12: See the discussion on this subject in Wasmann's
_The Problem of Evolution_.]

[Footnote 13: R. R. Marett, Presidential Address to Folk-Lore
Society, 1915. _Folk-Lore_, vol. xxvii., pp. 1-14.]

[Footnote 14: _The Kingdom of Man._ London: Constable & Co.
1907.]

[Footnote 15: Lankester, _op. cit._, p. 26.]

[Footnote 16: _Op. cit._, pp. 21-27.]

[Footnote 17: _My Life with the Eskimo_ (1913), p. 188.]

[Footnote 18: For a discussion of this question, see _Bernhardi
and Creation_, by Sir James Crichton-Browne, F.R.S. Glasgow:
James Maclehose & Sons. 1916.]

[Footnote 19: _The Northwest Amazons._ London: Constable & Co.
1915.]

[Footnote 20: _Science and the War_, p. 120.]

II. THEOPHOBIA AND NEMESIS

Sec. 1. THEOPHOBIA: ITS CAUSE

_Initium sapientiae timor Domini_; no doubt, but such fear is only the
beginning, and is not the kind of fear--which also exists--a fear which
engenders an actual revulsion against the idea of God.

It is to this kind of fear which the eminent Jesuit writer Wasmann
alludes when he says that "in many scientific circles there is an
absolute _Theophobia_, a dread of the Creator. I can only regret this,"
he continues, "because I believe that it is due chiefly to a defective
knowledge of Christian philosophy and theology."

That he is entirely right as to the existence of this feeling there can
be no doubt; no one can read at all widely in scientific literature
without becoming aware of it. Contrary to all the tenets of science
there is even a bias against any such idea as that of a Creator, though
science is supposed to confront all problems without bias of any kind. I
need not cite instances of this feeling; I have dealt with it elsewhere.
We may take it for granted, and proceed to look for an explanation for
the phenomenon. Wasmann attributes it to ignorance, and he is, I feel
sure, right; but let us examine the matter a lit