New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-14
TIE CLERGY md EVOLUTION

From The London Daily Neics.
The remains of Mr.. Darwin are 10 be buried in
Westminster Abey The Abbey is not exactly a
Campo Santo, but it holds the graves of many OF
the greatest Engishmen. Among these Mr. Oar
reckoned. His noble qualities, i'll which the origi-
nallty of intellectual genius was blended with and
balanced by steadiastness mOdeSty ana patience,
have been universally acknowledged. HE world
has not been led away by Mr.. Carlyles theory that
DarwinIsm is stupid and unInterestlng People
who remember what herY arrows OF the orthodox
we're cast at Mr.. Darwin. and at his books when
they first appeared, VIII be pleased 10 see that the
clergy can now speak of the philosopher with toll
erance and equan NIFTY. 1t seems To nave been
thought at first that II man were developed out OF
lower life and not fashioned las III the AUSTRALIAN,
Greek and Maori legends out of clay, then man
uoht TO behave like the an mails which are his dis
tant relatives In In Mem0rlam" written long
before the publication OF the Origin OF Species
Mr. TennysOn said that the sages OF the future
might I" shape their action like the gleateI ape,
but that he born with different conception OF
GOOD manners. This way OF looking al evolution
was not unpopular, and many respectable people
said if monkeys were our foTeiathers why shOulu
we lie any more moral than monkeys1 The
obvious answer was. Because you are not mon
KEYS but men, whatever your ancestors may nave
been'D IL would be as reasonable Tor MEMBER Oh
Tho Stock Exchange q solicitor TO tattoo nlnscll,
and walk about with battle-axe, because his lore
bears did So as for to reject morality because
XnotIer objection made to Mr.. Darwin's views
was that on his hypothesis there vas no room ior
a spiritual element in man. If man was descended
from An ape il was urged. how could he have OBJ
tanned a sOuf But 1T Is just as Impossible Ior us 10
solve this psychological problem on any S GIneT
theory of the development OF each lndlVldual
hnman being. These are ultimate matters on
which experimental science can never throw any
certain light. Her methods and researches suggest
one presumption to one set OF minds, others 10
others Science cannot answer the questions OF
whence and whittier: these riddles can never be
mastered the truth remains beyond mans power
10 discover he can only believe, or doubt OF deny
Know he cannot, and no scientific research can
reveal more than physical facts. All this CaIon
Iiddon acknow lodged IN the sermon Oh Mr. oar
wins death which he preached III ST. Pauls Cathe-
dral There is nothing new, as we said lately, In
the general idea OF evolution, as opposed 10 IN
the future life, or of the present. Hope, belief
dread blank denial have all been familiar TO men,
90 far az mans history can be traced by science
And science nowhere finds man existing, nor can
ha ayen infer from his institutions that he ever
l;vad in such a way as was not already truly
human Everywhere he had hand 10 1ashon
tools and TO represent in rude art the world ne
saw and usually he had nu 70 6 G bara
,ooi constructing animal, and almost every
where drawing animal and an amman VINO mas
shawn by his Treatment OF the bodies Oh the ueau,
shat his mind has been busted win tne eternai
nr"hlem OF consciousness perssting after death.
Tbe gan between such an animal anu tho hlsnost ,
ane IL indeed great gulf and evoiutioh has sun
10 evnlain how il was crossed. but IL the oAPI'ns,
tion were given and verified. hope ana IAith woulu
he no more imperilled than before ana Perplex
abont the soul would not be unraveileu- Canon
Iiddon seems TO have adopted this position, anu "
have recognized the right OF man 10 specuias.o 20
Mr.. Darwin speculated, ana 10 Io1h ~ t,oinabs
This tolerance is the latest evolved ana not .ne
least satisfactory mode Of clerical thouRnt Inoio
are men who, on what they believe 10 DC Tue ovi-
dence of science initiate themselves Win SOME
insane delight" in their presumed mortality anu
hopelessness. But Mr. Darwin was not one Oh tnese
rash and intolerant dreainerA