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then it deserves to go down, and to be forgotten.'* 

 Q Spurgeon declared that Darwinism was more dan- 

 gerous than open and avowed infidelity, since " the 

 one motive of the whole book is to dethrone God." 

 q Rabbi Hirschberg wrote, '' Darwin's volume is plaus- 

 ible to the unthinking person; but a deeper insight 

 shows a mephitic desire to overthrow the Mosaic books 

 and bury Judaism under a mass of fanciful rubbish." 

 Q In America Darwin had no more persistent critic 

 than the Rev. DeWitt Talmage. For ten years Dr. 

 Talmage scarcely preached a sermon without refer- 

 ence to "monkey ancestry" and "baboon unbelievers." 

 QThe New York "Christian Advocate" declared, " Dar- 

 w^in is endeavoring to becloud and befog the whole 

 question of truth, and his book will be of short life." 

 Q An eminent Catholic physician and writer. Dr. Con- 

 stantine James, w^rote a book of three hundred pages 

 called "Darwinism, or the Man-Ape." A copy of Dr. 

 James' book being sent to Pope Pius IX., the Pope 

 acknowledged it in a personal letter thanking the 

 author for his "masterly refutations of the vagaries of 

 this man Darw^in, wherein the Creator is left out of 

 all things and man proclaims himself independent, his 

 own king, his own priest, his own God — then degrad- 

 ing man to the level of the brute by declaring he had 

 the same origin, and this origin was lifeless matter. 

 Could folly and pride go farther than to degrade science 

 into a vehicle for throw^ing contumely and disrespect 

 on our holy religion ! " 



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