‘The Bible and Nature,’ said Martin, musingly. ‘What is his scheme? How does he go to work?’
Godwin gave a brief but lucid description of the book, and Mr Warricombe listened gravely. When there had been silence for some moments, the latter spoke in a tone he had never yet used when conversing with Peak. He allowed himself, for the first time, to betray a troubled doubt on the subject under discussion.
‘So he makes a stand at Darwinism as it affects man?’
Peak had yet no means of knowing at what point Martin himself ‘made a stand’. Modes of reconcilement between scientific discovery and religious tradition are so very numerous, and the geologist was only now beginning to touch upon these topics with his young acquaintance. That his mind was not perfectly at ease amid the conflicts of th
