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in Genesis of the formation of Adam out of dust, and of Eve 

 out of Adam's rib ? " And so Darwin and Huxley and the o- 

 thers caused great joy in unbelieving oircles as well as in the camp 

 of the enemy of mankind. 



Thèse scientists imagined they had bridged the gap back 

 to the time when man was not man at ail, but a species of chim- 

 panzee or orang-outang without mind or soûl, and so they airily 

 disposed of the idea that the Deity had created man in the very 

 first moment a perfect man with body and soûl and intellect f uUy 

 formed! And now Prof. Bateson admits: "We hâve bridged the 

 gap to some extent, in that we hâve found much lower forms 

 of man than we ever realized — but they ai-e still man. 



How often hâve we not heard on the lips of callow undergra- 

 duates the mystic phrase "survival of the fittest ?" It seemed 

 to fit any set of circumstances and to show the futility of 

 any religions belief. Now even this shibboleth stands discre- 

 dited. Prof essor Bateson says of it : " The survival of the fittest 

 was a plausible account of évolution in broad outline, but failed 

 in application to spécifie différences. The Darwinian philoso- 

 phy convinced us that every species must make good in nature 

 if it is to survive, but no one can tell how the différences do, 

 in fact, enable the species to make good. The claims of natural 

 sélection as the chief factor in the determirtation of species 

 hâve consequently been discredited. " 



Is there anything at ail left of the high-sounding words and 

 phrases of the Darwinian school of agnostics ? Precious little ! 

 Even the great theory of the development of faculties in ani- 

 mais on account of the necessities of existence is badly shat- 

 tered. A pig will not grow into an éléphant even if it would be 

 of advantage to him to havc a long trunk for pulling down 

 beech-mast ! 



How ail the dirty little idols of infidel science are being ut- 

 terly demolished ! Professor Bateson proceeds : 



"Referring to the variations occurring in the différent species, 

 there is no évidence of any one species acquiring new faculties, 

 but there are plenty of examples of species losing faculties. Spe- 

 cies lose things, but do not add to their possessions. 



