Ximenes, Cardinal ... "In Te, Domine, speravi."
II. PAGE 136.
DARWIN'S CREDO
"Science and Christ have nothing to do with each other, except in as far as the habit of scientific investigation makes a man cautious about accepting any proofs. As far as I am concerned, I do not believe that any revelation has ever been made. With regard to a future life, every one must draw his own conclusions from vague and contradictory probabilities."—(Letter to a Jena student, dated June 5th, 1879.)
"Mr. Darwin was much less reticent to myself than in his letter to Jena. He distinctly stated that, in his opinion, a vital or somatic principle, apart from the somatic energy, had no more locus standi in the human than in any other races of the animal kingdom—a conclusion that seems a mere corollary of, and indeed a position tantamount with, his essential doctrine of human and bestial identity of nature and genesis."—(Dr. Robert Lewins, in the Journal of Science.)
It may be instructive to subjoin to the above Credo of Darwin those of three other eminent Victorians, whom the present generation would probably pronounce it unkind and ill-mannered to brand as atheistical or un-Christian. Let them speak for themselves:—
Stuart Mill: "This world is a bungled business, in which no clear-sighted man can see any signs either of wisdom or of God."
Huxley: "Scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin."