THE ORIGIN OF MAN 41 



nine teeth, to muscles like those by which a horse 

 moves his ears. 



He is then told that everything found in a human 

 brain is found in miniature in a brute brain. 



And how about morals ? He is assured that the de- 

 velopment of the moral sense can be explained on a 

 brute basis without any act of, or aid from, God. 

 (See pages 113-114.) 



No mention of religion, the only basis for morality; 

 not a suggestion of a sense of responsibility to God — 

 nothing but cold, clammy materialism! Darwinism 

 transforms the Bible into a story book and reduces 

 Christ to man's level. It gives him an ape for an an- 

 cestor on His mother's side at least and, as many evo- 

 lutionists believe, on His Father's side also. 



The instructor gives the student a new family tree 

 millions of years long, with its roots in the water 

 (marine animals) and then sets him adrift, with infi- 

 nite capacity for good or evil but with no light to 

 guide him, no compass to direct him and no chart of 

 the sea of life! 



No wonder so large a percentage of the boys and 

 girls who go from Sunday schools and churches to col- 

 leges (sometimes as high as seventy-five per cent.) 

 never return to religious work. How can one feel 

 God's presence in his daily life if Darwin's reasoning 

 is sound? This restraining influence, more potent 

 than any external force, is paralyzed when God is put 

 so far away. How can one believe in prayer if, 

 for millions of years, God has never touched a human 

 life or laid His hand upon the destiny of the human 



