creation is not once referred to. It was a calm, judicial 

 record of close study and observation, that seemed to 

 prove that life began in very loTvly forms, and that it 

 has constantly ascended and differentiated, new forms 

 and new species being continually created, and that 

 the work of creation still goes on. 



In the preface to *'The Origin of Species" Darw^in 

 gives Alfred Russel Wallace credit for coming to the 

 same conclusion as himself, and states that both had 

 been at work on the same idea for over a score of years, 

 but each working separately, unknown to the other. 

 Q Andrew D. White says that the publication of Dar- 

 win's book >vas like plowing into an ant-hill. The 

 theologians, rudely awakened from comfort and repose, 

 swarmed out angry, wrathful and confused. The air 

 w^as charged with challenges, and soggy sermons, 

 books, pamphlets, brochures and reviews, all were 

 flying at the head of poor Darw^in. Questions that he 

 had anticipated and answered at great length were 

 flung off by men w^ho had neither read his book nor 

 expected an answer. The idea that man had evolved 

 from a lower form of animal life was especially con- 

 sidered immensely funny, and jokes about *' monkey 

 ancestry," came from almost every pulpit, convulsing 

 the pew^ with laughter. 



In passing it may be well to note that Darw^in nowhere 

 says that man descended from a monkey. He does, 

 however, affirm his belief that they had a common 

 ancestor. One branch of the family took to the plains, 

 and evolved into men, and the other branch remained 



181 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



