THE DARWIN CENTENARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 7

THE DARWIN CENTENARY.

AT CAMBRIDGE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—OoprrtffhU ■ • , Union, Juno' 22. The Darwin Ccatonary has opened at Cam.: bridge. ! *' ].«rd Rayleigh, Chancellor of Oambridgo University, ,Welcomed representatives of two hundred and thirty-fivo.''universities.' academ-,. ics, and learned bodies at Homo and abroad; besides two huudred gu'osts,.'including ;men> ; eminent!in every walk'of life. SOME TRIBUTES. •To cclcbratd tlio- contrary- of - tho. birth of Darwin and:- the fiftiethi.. anniversary of' the publication of " The ! of,- Species,a., scries of ossays ontitlcd " Darwin > and Modern Science is to be published by. the Caiubridgo University . Press. Tho arrangements were mado by the Cambridge Philosophical So- , ciety. .: It. will . evidently be of .extra-' ordinary ! interest,' 'to,', judge . somo N ex- ' tracts which tho "New York Times" has beonable: to pnblifeh.: V: i' ' 'r, ' v ■ Darwin's Lovo of Truth. "In his essay on 'The Inflnenco of the Conception of' Evolution on Modem Philosophy,': Professor llofTding, of: Cojtnhagen,. begins ny paying a tribute' to Darwin's-6\vn perkinality.; 'His. deep .lovo of truth,'his indefatigable inquiry, his wide. horiton, and. his ,• steady solf- ' Criticism, niako hiiii' a scientific, model, even if his results and theories should eventually coino to possess'mainly a.historical'.intercst. -In tho iintollcctiiaU'doiuain'-tho' primhrj' .objectlis ~to.' reach high summits fronV which wido surveys aro possible; to reach'them toiling honestly ;upward by: tho way of experience, Rnd then not to 'turn: dizzy'when a summit is gained. Darwinians have .sometimes turned dizzy,, but .Danvin never.' • ' Darwinism and Sociology. . '"'Darwinism, and Sociology' is the title or. an teay.by Professor Boiiglo, .of tho Sorbomie, . ;in whiou is discussed the influence of-DarwiuV 'conception of nature uud the : laws of its transformation on our conception of' social phenomena and ,their-.history, v*Darwinism nffects sociology: riot only through the agency of its advocates, but. .through that l of its.-op-ponents;. - The questionings to' which it haat given rioc liavo proved no less frliilfiil than the-solutions it has suggested. ■ In l short, few' ,doctrines .111 tho history - of. social philosophy ■will liavo produced on'their passago a finer outcrop of ideas' ' ... • Darwin and Religion. . n,;' Tlij, Influence. of .Darwin upon' Religious > Thought'• is dealt with bv $ho Nov. 1' U Waggett,. who, draws attention 'th'-ccrtain'-ele-ments. of the Darwinian influence, and 'then shows.reason7or; the conclusion that• it■ haa:' been, front a Christian point, of view,-satisfac-tory,. His conclusion is; that ' we'have-gained ; : a language and a habit cf thought more lit; to faoo. the great and dark problems that remain less lwblo to damaging conflicts, eniiipped for more .rapid assimilation of knowledge .\'nd' by this ohango biology itself is a gainer.: For relieved of fruitless encounters with popular religion, it may advance with surer'aim 'along tho. path of re»Uy scientiiio life study whichwas repined for modern men by the pub « ' tion of ' The Origin of .Species/", ' , U ' lC4l Sir Robert jStout is one of. the wprenontatiW No " Maml at the Cambridge celebr£