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li£U)urI'll iniatrly the Archbishop answered: 11must hr traced to the fatal autocracy attributed to private judgment in religious matters, ami proxiimately to the writings of the agnostic writers of the last century, whose theories are now being dissolved, not only by thetouch ol religion, but also hv ihc touch ofnuore accurate science. Tor instance-, -it..there was any quest ion on which advanced aim agnostic scientists were aiyived. it w*s on the gjreat and all-explaining law of evolution by natural selection. Anyone who did not sen with Darwin’s eyes and adopt Darwin’s views was at once put down as an obscurant 1st. a religious bigot, and worthy of the pity of the men of light, and loading.“But in the meantime a humble priest. Father Gregor Johann Mendel, was making experiments in the garden of bis monastery .nthe small town of Brunn, in Austria, which, inthe opinion of many of the most prominent scientists of the present day give the coup dc grace to the theory of natural selection.“Speaking of the discoveries of Fr. Mendel. Professor Morgan, .on- of the best known Imng American biologists, writing in ‘Harpers Monthly’ (Feb.. 1003). says: »lf we reject Darwin’s theory of natural selection as an explanation of evolution, we have at least a new and promising outlook in another direction (Father Mendel’s discoveries), and are i i a P’s,t,°n to answer the oft-heard but unscientific qno those who must ding to some dogma-i ou reject Darwin what hotter have you o offer“Professor Bateson does nnt hesitate to saj that ‘his experiments are worthy to ranw t « those which laid the foundation of the atomiclaws of chemistry.’ .-Professor W F-. Castle ot Ilarvar Uni versitv, in a paper read More the .'mericati Academy of Arts and Sciences last -What will do.iht.less rank as on. o the greatest discoveries in the studiy ol hioMg and in the stu.lv of heredity, perhaps thi greatest. was made by Gregor Mendel an Austrian monk, in the garden of ,“You think, the.., that any scjenulK theory which is opposed to revealed stand the test of time, and of fuller knowIp-Yes that is the reason 1 mention this matter 1 also think that though a c.w.erati.m or -i few generations of men may heroine, a large extent, agnostic, still GodI w 11 not leav Himself wilhoul a witness In this world.^andthe anima naturaliler ehmtiam. th- humansoul naturally Christian, will assert its. if
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Melbourne Punch
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Thu, Mar 03, 1904
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