EVERY HUMAN BEING, ETC. 105 



the spermatozoon, the ovum and germ-cell or fertilized 

 ovum. It has identically the same powers and po- 

 tentialities that they have no more nor less. It fol- 

 lows that nature cannot, automatically, generate nor 

 evolve, a new man, nor a new woman. 



Sec. 33. Every Human Being is a New, 

 Direct and Special Creation by Al- 

 mighty God; this Question to 

 be Determined, How 



To determine this question it is necessary: first, 

 to ascertain what work has to be done in order to cre- 

 ate a new human being ; secondly, to consider whether 

 this work can be done, spontaneously and automatic- 

 ally, by the germ-cell or fertilized ovum and its 

 daughter-cells, or whether a supernatural psychic and 

 creative force is necessary to do it. 



Darwin ought to be accepted by the evolutionist 

 and materialist as high authority on any biological 

 question, and specially on the subject of special crea- 

 tion. I call him as my first witness. In his Origin of 

 Species, last edition, 1872, (vol. 2, p. 298) he says: 



"I believe that [all] animals are descended from 

 at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from 

 an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead one 

 step further, namely, to the belief that all animals 

 and plants are descended from some one prototype.' 



Again, on page 299, he says: 



