DARWIN AND HIS THEORIES FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW.
“Surely in such a man lived that true charity which is the very essence of the true spirit of Christ.”—Canon Prothero.
“The moral lesson of his life is perhaps even more valuable than is the grand discovery which he has stamped on the world’s history.”—The Observer (London).
“Darwin’s writings may be searched in vain for an irreverent or unbelieving word.”—The Church Review.
“The doctrine of evolution with which Darwin’s name would always be associated lent itself at least as readily to the old promise of God as to more modern but less complete explanations of the universe.”—Canon Barry.
“The fundamental doctrine of the theist is left precisely as it was. The belief in the great Creator and Ruler of the Universe is, as we have seen, confessed by the author of these doctrines. The grounds remain untouched of faith in the personal Deity who is in intimate relation with individual souls, who is their guide and helper in life, and who can be trusted in regard to the great hereafter.”—The Church Quarterly Review.
“It appears impossible to overrate the gain we have won in the stupendous majesty of this (Darwin’s) idea of the Creator and creation.”—Sunday-School Chronicle.
“It is certain that Mr. Darwin’s books contain a marvelous store of patiently accumulated and most interesting facts. Those facts seem to point in the direction of the belief that the Great Spirit of the Universe has wrought slowly and with infinite patience, through innumerable ages, rather than by abrupt intervention and by means of great catastrophes, in the production of the results, in the animate and inanimate world, which now offer to the student of nature boundless scope for observation and inquiry.”—The Christian World.
“Let us see, in the funeral honors paid within these holy precincts to our greatest naturalist, a happy trophy of the reconciliation between faith and science.”—The Guardian.
“That there is some truth in the theory of evolution, however, most scientists, including those of Christian faith, believe, and Mr. Darwin certainly has done much to make the facts plain; but no scientific principle established by him ever has undermined any truth of the Gospel.”—The Congregationalist.