content was not understood until the present age of enlightenment.9 All deistic thought tended towards making revelation superfluous, and all action of God in the world unnecessary.10 While the fact of creation was still commonly admitted, it served with the original Deists no other purpose than with Kant, and later with Darwin, namely, to give the world an independent existence. The world had in creation been so abundantly supplied with all manners of powers and gifts that it could dispense with