[230] "Never in the history of man has so terrific a calamity befallen the race as that which all who look may now (viz. in consequence of the scientific victory of Darwin) behold advancing as a deluge black with destruction, resistless in might, uprooting our most cherished hopes, engulphing our most precious creed, and burying our highest life in mindless destruction."—A Candid Examination of Theism, p. 51.
[231] Science and Christian Tradition. London, 1904.
[232] "No productiveness of the highest kind ... is in the power of anyone."—Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret. London, 1850.
[233] Berthelot, Evolutionisme et Platonisme, Paris, 1908, p. 45.
[234] Times, 1892, passim.
[235] See Von Hartmann's Wahrheit und Irrthum in Darwinismus. Berlin, 1875.
[236] Hymn of the Church—
Rerum Deus tenax vigor,
Immotus in te permanens.
[237] Life and Letters, Vol. iii. p. 359.