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Gladstone? The world is finding that the scientific revelation of creation is ever more and more in accordance with worthy conceptions of that great Power working in and through the universe. More and more it is seen that inspiration has never ceased, and that its prophets and priests are not those who work to fit the letter of its older literature to the needs of dogmas and sects, but those, above all others, who patiently, fearlessly, and reverently devote themselves to the search for truth as truth, in the faith that there is a Power in the universe wise enough to make truth-seeking safe and good enough to make truth-telling useful.(181) (181) For the Huxley-Gladstone controversy, see The Nineteenth Century for 1885-'86. For Canon Driver, see his article, The Cosmogony of Genesis, in The Expositor for January, 1886. CHAPTER VI. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN EGYPTOLOGY, AND ASSYRIOLOGY. I. THE SACRED CHRONOLOGY. In the great ranges of investigation which bear most directly upon the origin of man, there are two in which Science within the last few years has gained final victories. The significance of these in changing, and ultimately in reversing, one of the greatest currents of theological thought, can hardly be overestimated; not even the tide set in motion by Cusa, Copernicus, and Galileo was more powerful to bring in a new epoch of belief. The first of these conquests relates to the antiquity of man on the earth. The fathers of the early Christian Church, receiving all parts of our sacred books as equally inspired, laid little, if any, less stress

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