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Excerpt from The Idea of Development
The theory of evolution is necessarily based on facts, and consequently, until the facts which tell against it have received a really sufficient explana tion, it must remain a mere hypothesis of greater or less probability. But as regards the principles used in constructing this theory, these are all to be found in scholasticism - that philosophy which is, and must remain, perennially true, because, although not all its conclusions either are, or pretend to be, the last possible word on the subjects brought under con sideration, yet its principles are for the most part immutably fixed in the nature of things, and there fore render it in any essential the philosophy of all time. As Newman expresses it in his Idea of a University (discourse V.)
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