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insufficiently explored : and that, when it has been more 
extensively investigated, all these speculations, which at 
present serve as premises upon which theories are built, 
will be discovered to have been sound, to the confusion 
of all who, hesitating to accept deductions drawn from 
premises taken for granted, decline to exchange an old 
faith for a new one. 
Ordinary Students who feel that there is 20 arguntent 
against a prophecy; and confess that they are unable to 
cope with the prophet, who is also a scientist of renown ; 
these are thankful to feel that there are yet many men, 
of equal renown, who have, with equal understanding, 
investigated all the arguments, embryological, and the 
rest; and for all this still hold by the old light that God 
has revealed to His creature Man, the manner of His 
creation; that He was a special creation; creation of a 
pair: unlike Aladdin’s mother they prefer their old lamp. 
The effort once was to prove the exceeding anti- 
guity of man, and his tools; that isto say Man, as he now 
is, intelligent. But as it seems clear that even the damk of 
time (so far as the éarth’s crust is concerned), upon which 
such huge drafts are necessary, is not absolutely in- 
exhaustible, the further intelligent Man is removed back 
in era, the shorter the time for his development from the 
same arboreal ancestor that is claimed for him, and for 
the so called ‘Anthropoid’ Apes. Unless in his individual 
case, the animal proceeded ‘ per saltum, as has been 
distinctly claimed, and as distinctly denied to the 
organisms. 
But then where zs the difference between this tmmense 
leap, and a special creation ; surely this latter is as credible 
and far more intelligible than the former. 
Evolutionists and Geologists agree that each Geologic 
era held its special species, surely Special Creations. 
