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to them, spoke of spiritual matters only. Mr. Ullyett had 
also touched upon a fact generally lost sight of by the advocates 
of Darwinism, that Darwin never said man had descended 
from the monkey or the ourang-outang. He said that in the past 
there must have been some type not exactly what they might call 
human, and certainly not an ape, but a common ancestor from 
which diverged both the ape tribe and the human family. Any one 
who had seen savages would not deny that they approached much 
nearer to the animal kingdom than the civilised world did. There 
were men who had so little intelligence that they could not count 
above four, they had no ideas about religion or God, they had 
hardly any articulate language, they lived on roots, were entirely 
destitute of clothing, had no notion of washing, or of refinement or 
civilisation. Surely there was as much difference between a savage 
and men like Shakespeare and Milton, as there was between a 
savage and the higher form of ape. There was always the same 
difficulty about new doctrines They had experienced it in 
astronomy. When that was first mooted, it was called irreligious, 
and said to be in contradiction to the teaching of the Bible. He 
looked upon the theory of evolution as being so grand and complete 
that he believed in it; and he thought future generations would 
be surprised to find that they had any difficulty in accepting the 
truth. Another obstacle was that the theory had somewhat 
offended their vanity. All of them were more or less ashamed of 
their poorer relations, and in this case they were particularly so. 
He did not believe that their immediate ancestors had tails, but 
they must not conceal from themselves that they all had tails, that 
is, rudimentary tails. Of course it was these rudimentary organs 
which were so convincing to the Evolutionist. The speaker pointed 
out that undeveloped people and idiots were remarkably like some 
animals of the monkey tribe. They went on all fours; they had 
not the gift of language; they were fond of imitation; were mis- 
chievous, tricky, and cunning; and were fond of climbing. All 
these were characteristics of the ape tribe. No doubt the whole of 
the monkey tribe would develop into something human and manly 
if they could only use the vocal organs which they possessed. 
There was no reason anatomically why a monkey should not speak. 
How at first the human voice became developed was a mystery. 
The explanation had been lost with other records of the past 
These lost records were a very great difficulty. They all spoke in 
a joking way about the missing link, and. they could easily under- 
stand why there were these missing links. In the first place, only 
a small portion of the earth had been searched for geological 
records. They must remember, too, that bones and other human 
remains were very perishable, and when they expected to find 
