20 THE ORIGIK OF MAK 



words indicating uncertainty. The phrase "we may 

 well suppose," occurs over eight hundred times in his 

 two principal works. (See Herald & Presbyter, 

 November 22, 1914.) The eminent scientist is guess- 

 ing. 



After locating our gorilla and chimpanzee ancestors 

 in Africa, he concludes that " it is useless to speculate 

 on this subject." If the uselessness of speculation had 

 occurred to him at the beginning of his investigation 

 he might have escaped responsibility for shaking the 

 faith of two generations by his guessing on the whole 

 subject of biology. 



If we could divide the human race into two distinct 

 groups we might allow evolutionists to worship brutes 

 as ancestors but they insist on connecting all mankind 

 with the jungle. We have a right to protect our fam- 

 ily tree. 



Having given Darwin's conclusions as to man's an- 

 cestry, I shall quote him to prove that his hypothesis is 

 not only groundless, but absurd and harmful to so- 

 ciety. It is groundless because there is not a single fact 

 in the universe that can be cited to prove that man is 

 descended from the lower animals. Darwin does noi 

 use facts ; he uses conclusions drawn from similarities. 

 He builds upon presumptions, probabilities and infer- 

 ences, and asks the acceptance of his hypothesis " not- 

 withstanding the fact that connecting links have nol 

 hitherto been discovered" (page 162). He advances 

 an hypothesis which, if true, would find support on 

 every foot of the earth's surface, but which, as a mat- 

 ter of fact, finds support nowhere. There are myriads 



