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Evangelicals and Evolution: Henry Drummond, Herbert Spencer, and the Naturalisation of the Spiritual World*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

James R. Moore
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

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On 6 September 1939 the ‘S.S. President Harding’ churned slowly across the North Atlantic on the last of its summer runs. Joseph Needham passed the time aboard as he had often done while awaiting the completion of a distillation or an incubation in the Cambridge Biochemical Laboratory: by preparing a book for press. Now, however, he sat forebodingly, awaiting a graver distillation from the waters, an incubus in the skies, as he put the finishing touches on the introductory essay for a new edition of a book entitled Natural Law in the Spiritual World. The author of this book was Henry Drummond, a Scottish evangelical worker who died in 1897. Needham, born three years later, was a Marxist embryologist and a practising Anglo-Catholic. Near the end of the essay Needham stressed what he took to be Drummond's belief that ‘much of the content of traditional Christian theology — “the laws of the spiritual world” — arise directly from what had preceded it in the highly organised realm of the psychological’.

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18 Tropical Africa (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1888) reached a thirteenth British edition in 1908 and was issued by no fewer than five publishers in the United States before 1900. The third edition (1890) was reprinted at New York in 1969 by the Negro Universities Press. Translations were made into Dutch (1889), German, Swedish, Norwegian (all 1890), and Finnish (1893). Drummond's African travel diary, now in Edinburgh University Library (Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Edinburgh), is partly transcribed in Smith, Life of Henry Drummond, chap. 8. See Ross, Andrew C., ‘Scottish Missionary Concern, 1874–1914: A Golden Era?Scottish Historical Review, 51 (1972), 5372Google Scholar; Galbraith, John S., MacKinnon and East Africa, 1878–1895: A study in the ‘New Imperialism’ (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1972)Google Scholar; and Robinson, Ronald and Gallagher, John, Africa and the Victorians, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1982).Google Scholar

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34 Smith, , Life of Henry Drummond, pp. 221222, 322–23Google Scholar. No fewer than 20 separately published critiques of Natural Law appeared on both sides of the Atlantic. These are listed with full bibliographic details in my Ph.D. thesis, ‘The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870–10, 00’ (University of Manchester, 1975), Vol. 2, p. 426, n. 54Google Scholar

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40 Reports of the Norihficld conference, in Springfield Daily Republican (Mass.), 3–13 July 1893; Smith, George Adam, ‘A Personal Tribute’, in Drummond, Henry, Dwight L. Moody: Impressions and Fads (New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900), pp. 2223, 28–29Google Scholar (cf. Torrcy, ‘Did Dwight L. Moody Favor Modernism?’); ‘Dwight L. Moody and Henry Drummond’; Moody, Dwight L., ‘Henry Drummond’, Record of Christian Work, 16 (May 1897), 129Google Scholar; Moody 10 J. Stalker, quoted in j. Stalker to Mrs Drummond, 26 April 1897, in Drummond Papers, 5890.3, also partly reprinted in Smith, , Life of Henry Drummond, p. 9Google Scholar. Moody requested that Drummond's admirer, the liberal Christian evolutionist Lyman Abbot, author of The Evolution of Christianity (1892), come lo Chicago to preach for him during the World's Fair mission (Abbott, , Silhouettes of My Contemporaries [London: George Allen & Unwin, 1922], p. 208).Google Scholar

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