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and Agnosticism are more dangerous when hidden 

 under the cloak of reHgion than when they are exposed 

 to view. 



Third, in schools supported by taxation we should 

 have a real neutrality wherever neutrality in religion 

 is desired. If the Bible cannot be defended in these 

 schools it should not be attacked, either directlv or 

 under the guise of philosophy or science. The neu- 

 trality which we now have is often but a sham; it 

 carefully excludes the Christian religion but per- 

 mits the use of the schoolrooms for the destruction 

 of faith and for the teaching of materialistic doc- 

 trines. 



It is not sufficient to say that some believers in Dar- 

 winism retain their belief in Christianity; some sur- 

 vive smallpox. As we avoid smallpox because many 

 die of it, so we should avoid Darwinism because it 

 leads many astray. 



\If it is contended that an instructor has a right to 

 teach anything he likes, I reply that the parents who 

 pay the salary have a right to decide what shall be 

 taught. To continue the illustration used above, a 

 person can expose himself to the smallpox if he desires 

 to do so, but he has no right to communicate it to 

 others. So a man can believe anything he pleases but 

 he has no right to teach it against the protest of his 

 employers. 



Acceptance of Darwin's doctrine tends to destroy 

 one's belief in immortality as taught by the Bible. If 

 there has been no break in the line between man and 

 the beasts — ^no time when by the act of the Heavenly 



