If Theology had been able, or rather had taken the trouble, to study thoroughly the first chapter of Genesis, and thus to comprehend that, if the earth was created without form and void, a great deal of work had to be done, after creation, in forming it into its present condition, there was no call upon it to find fault with Copernicus or persecute Galileus, because they said the earth revolved round the sun; more especially as they do not appear to have ever said anything against religion or revelation. Neither was there any necessity for opposing the so-called new science of evolution, because it (Theology) ought to have seen that the work expended in reducing the earth into form could hardly be conceived of otherwise than as a process of evolution; and would thus have been in a position to tell the authors of the _new_ science that they had only discovered what had existed before the beginning of time. On the other hand, there was no occasion for Science to take up the war. If it, in its turn, had taken the trouble to study and understand the first chapter of Genesis, it could have shown Theology that _it_ did not comprehend, and could not give a true account of what religion and revelation are; whereas it (Science) seems to have had a strong tendency to demonstrate that religion and revelation are altogether false, and that the great work it has to perform is to dethrone Theology, and set itself up it in its stead. It is not worth while even to think of who or which was the aggressor, seeing that the war originated from ignorance caused by want of thought and study on both sides. All that has to be said on the subject reduces itself to the fact that both Religion and Science have been coming, and are at present going, through the process of evolution. Can anyone say that Science has been truly scientific, without ever incurring in error, from the beginning of history up to the present day? Will any one venture to maintain that there has been no evolution, no progress, no softening of the spirit of Religion, from the institution of Christianity up to the end of the nineteenth century? If such there be, let the one look back to the time of Aristotle, and the other to the establishment of the Church under Constantine.