what important passages. And I ask you to remember that marvellous essay
on Natural Theology--if I may so call it in all reverence--namely, the
119th Psalm; and judge for yourself whether he who wrote that did not
consider the study of Embryology as important, as significant, as worthy
of his deepest attention, as an Owen, a Huxley, or a Darwin. Nay, I will
go further still, and say, that in those great words--"Thine eyes did see
my substance, yet being imperfect; and in Thy book all my members were
written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none
of them,"--in those words, I say, the Psalmist has anticipated that
realistic view of embryological questions to which our most modern
philosophers are, it seems to me, slowly, half unconsciously, but still
inevitably, returning.

Next, as to Race. Some persons now have a nervous fear of that word, and
of allowing any importance to difference of races. Some dislike it,
because they think that it endangers the modern notions of democratic
equality. Others because they fear that it may be proved that the Negro
is not a man and a brother. I think the fears of both parties
groundless.

As for the Negro, I not only believe him to be of the same race as
myself, but that--if Mr Darwin's theories are true--science has proved
that he must be such. I should have thought, as a humble student of such
questions, that the one fact of the unique distribution of the hair in
all races of human beings, was full moral proof that they had all had one
common ancestor. But this is not matter of natural Theology. What is
matter thereof, is this.

Physical science is proving more and more the immense importance of Race;
the importance of hereditary powers, hereditary organs, hereditary