“I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone…. A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he ‘has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.’ ”6
