Handwritten letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Eugene Schreck. Text: “Your note and the book “The Human and its relation to the Divine” have been received. I shall be glad to comply with your request to write a review of it, but it will take me a little time as the matter is heavy and at times requires some fortitude to follow the thought. I do not want to do an injustice so I would be glad if you would give me your opinion of the meaning and bearing of the following words on page 20, “In the development of the race there were no men, properly so called, till consciousness of self arose; when this arose there was man, and he stood upright, and had dominion over the other animals.” Do you regard this as one with the teaching lately advanced by Mr. Worcester, which accommodates the teaching of the Church to the theory of evolution; in claiming that man’s progenitors were first animals, the which at first had no human souls but so (created?) that when a certain stage in their development was attained they were enabled to receive a soul, then they became man and immortal?” Names mentioned: Mr. Worcester