Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . the willingness of the human mind tobe taught in things not known comes of the necessary approxi-mation of views to that common groundwhich, while it is not the ground occu-pied by mediaeval scholasticism and mod- ern dogma, is, on the other hand, notthe ground of an atheistic is rather that point of Approximation view which accepts an orig- of the opposing ., . . ?? opinions. mal creative
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . the willingness of the human mind tobe taught in things not known comes of the necessary approxi-mation of views to that common groundwhich, while it is not the ground occu-pied by mediaeval scholasticism and mod- ern dogma, is, on the other hand, notthe ground of an atheistic is rather that point of Approximation view which accepts an orig- of the opposing ., . . ?? opinions. mal creative power as theproductive energy whereby the begin-nings of all life are to be accounted forand explained, but at the same timerecognizes the evolutionary processeswhich are manifestly at work among allexisting forms as the explanation andmethod of growth whereby the livingspecies of organisms have been broughtfrom their germinal to their perfectedstate. Under these two general con-cepts the life of man may be assignedto its true place as the supreme factconnected with our sphere. For thepresent it suffices to say that creationis a fact, and evolution its BOSTON UNIVERSITY C3U-&GE Of LIBERAL ART* LIBRARY PS
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