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222 INTKODUCTION TO PARLIAMENT PAPERS. consider our ideals imperfect, and much more our attainments, and to frankly accept a law of change and advance. The pre- sumption is in favor of those who are in advance of common opinion, who come out from churches, and move forward from creeds, to fulfill the law of constant unfolding and evolution, until, in spite of all changes, we all come unto a perfect man, Christ Jesus. Sir William Dawson, in an eleventh-day paper, summarized the conclusions of science which bear upon religion, showing that they involve no necessary hostility to the doctrines of religion, and that for the most part the notable men of science have been men of faith and piety. The eleventh -day paper of H. Dharmapala remarked especially upon the teachings of Buddha on evolution. They are clear and expansive. The most advanced conception of modern science has not gone beyond the generalized idea of Buddha, that the entire knowable universe is one undivided whole, both the phenomena of nature and those of human nature and human life lying under one grand law of the devel- opment of all things.