CHARLES DARWIN'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
Sir,—lt seems to me perfectly obvious that if Darwin observes: "I hope to die as I have lived with my faith in Jesus Christ unshaken,' 1 ho could not, by any .conceivable possibility, have meaut that he accepted the popularly and ecclesiastically accredited view of Jesus and of Christianity. Nothing is clcarer, from Darwin's recorded utterances, than that he "had not lived" with "that faith" unshaken. If ho used such words, or •'words to the effect," ascribed to hiiu, he can have meant only that he regarded Jesus Christ as the most commanding moral and spiritual the world has ever known. Thousands of tho world's greatest thinkers in modem times could use the words attributed to Darwin, without committing themselves to tho extravagances of popular or ecclesiastical theology.—l am, etc., CHRISTIAN ETHIC. August 25, 1917. ,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3174, 27 August 1917, Page 6
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139CHARLES DARWIN'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3174, 27 August 1917, Page 6
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