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take any other view is to admit that our structure and 

 that of all animals about us, is a mere snare to entrap 

 our judgment;" as if the Almighty were in duty 

 bound to make each species so separate from every 

 other that no one could possibly be confused by resem- 

 blances. There would seem to be differences enough. 

 To put man in a class with the chimpanzee because of 

 any resemblances that may be found is so unreasonable 

 that the masses have never accepted it. 



If we see houses of different size, from one room to 

 one hundred, we do not say that the large houses grew 

 out of small ones, but that the architect that could plan 

 one could plan all. 



But a groundless hypothesis— even an absurd one — 

 would be unworthy of notice if it did no harm. This 

 hypothesis, however, does incalculable harm. It 

 teaches that Christianity impairs the race physically. 

 That was the first implication at which I revolted. It 

 led me to review the doctrine and reject it entirely. If 

 hatred is the law of man's development ; that is, if man 

 has reached his present perfection by a cruel law under 

 which the strong kill off the weak — then, if there is 

 any logic that can bind the human mind, we must turn 

 backward toward the brute if we dare to substitute 

 the law of love for the law of hate. That is the con- 

 clusion that I reached and it is the conclusion that Dar- 

 win himself reached. On pages 149-50 he says: 

 " With savages the weak in body or mind are soon 

 eliminated ; and those that survive commonly exhibit a 

 vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the 

 other hand, do our utmost to check the progress of 



