The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

LECTURE V.RELATIONS OF LOWER AND HIGHER ORGAN-ISMS.FROM the general aspects of the theoryof species, we pass to the considerationof distinct groups of organism, with the viewof ascertaining their relations to each other.In doing so, it is better to begin at the lowerend of the scale, leaving for a more advancedstage of inquiry the higher types of organism.In this department of the subject, special obligationsare due to the wide range of investigationseither occasioned or stimulated bythe theory of evolution. For, whatever maybe the ultimate award passed on this theory,there will be a unanimous recognition of thegreat value to science attending on the variedforms of inquiry stimulated by the writingsof Mr. Charles Darwin. And one obviousand strong reason for such acknowledgmentis that so many of the results of these researcheshave an inherent value quite dis-