Jhe OriqiJ^ Of ]C.IFE 



AND THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION. 



Let us take a cursory survey of an abstruse 

 subject, one that has naturally woven an ever- 

 fascinating, a mind-stimulating and an all- 

 powerful spell over the vast majority of the 

 deep thinkers of past and present ages. 



Born out of the womb of Night; dwelling 

 in the house of Night ; and fading away in the 

 embrace of Night — how mysterious, how dif- 

 ficult, how remote is this interesting phenome- 

 non : The Origin of Life, on which scientific 

 and speculative Man vainly ruminates and 

 theorizes while borne dreamily along on a has- 

 tening current of hopeless perplexity and con- 

 fusing course ; and yet on which a so-called 

 God-inspired Bible assumes to expound with 

 authority and to relate with truth ! 



In this legend Man and all the Animals are 

 introduced as creations of a single day I Ge- 

 ology has dispelled that illusion from minds 



