14 SPECIAL CREATION 



present inhabitants of the world' have been "due 

 to secondary causes, like these determining the birth 

 and death of the individual.' (Origin of Species, 

 2, p. 304.) In brief, Darwin maintained that the 

 Creator directly and specially made one or a few 

 primordial forms, and turned them loose upon the 

 earth to shift for themselves, subject to the "factors 

 of evolution.' 



Although Darwin appears to believe in the special 

 creation of the first one, or the first few, animals 

 and plants, and in the immortality of the human soul, 

 yet his theory of evolution is highly materialistic ; and 

 the publication of this Origin of Species gave ma- 

 terialism an immense impetus. 



The Encyclopedia Britannica (9 ed., vol. 2, p. 

 109), referring to "thinkers, who hold materialistic 

 views, ' ' says : 



"According to this school, man is a machine, 

 no doubt the most complex and wonderfully adapted 

 of all known machines, but still neither more nor less 

 than an instrument whose energy is provided by force 

 from without, and which, when set in action performs 

 the various operations, for which its structure fits it, 

 namely : to live, move, feel and think. ' 



The materialist maintains that there is no sub- 

 stance in man, which is alone conscious, distinct and 

 separable from the body ; that matter is the only sub- 

 stance in existence; and that matter and its motions 

 constitute the universe. (Cent. Die. 5, p. 3658.) This 

 work, on the same page quotes J. Fisk (Evolutionist, 

 p. 277) as saying that "Philosophical materialism 

 holds that matter, and the motions of matter, make 



