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But in this, as in other cases, the objection is, I think, passing away; the new principle is more and more seen to be fatal to mere outworks of religion, not to religion itself.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot concludes that objections to natural selection are diminishing, as the principle is increasingly recognized as compatible with religion.
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