DARIO III — Battle of Isastra D. and Alessandro Magno, Detail of the figure of D. on the war chariot. Musician from Pompeii — Naples, National Museum.
whether evolutionism was compatible with belief in God: “my views are not necessarily atheistic.” Certainly D. recognized that “chance” does not explain the world, and was inclined to admit a Creator, but the force of his conclusions was weakened by a perfectly logical doubt in an evolutionist: “whether the convictions of a human mind developed from that of the lower animals are of any value or entirely worthy of trust.”