56 THE OEIGIN OF MAN 



Darwinism is to exalt the mind at the expense of the 

 heart, to overestimate the reUabiUty of the reason as 

 compared with faith and to impair confidence in the 

 Bible. The mind is a machine ; it has no morals. It 

 obeys its owner as willingly when he plots to kill as 

 when he plans for service. 



The Theistic evolutionist who tries to occupy a mid- 

 dle ground between those who accept the Bible account 

 of creation and those who reject God entirely reminds 

 one of a traveller in the mountains, who, having fallen 

 half-way down a steep slope, catches hold of a frail 

 bush. It takes so much of his strength to keep from 

 going lower that he is useless as an aid to others. 

 Those who have accepted evolution in the belief that it 

 was not anti-Christian may well revise their conclu- 

 sions in view of the accumulating evidence of its bane- 

 ful influence. 



Darwinism discredits the things that are supernatu- 

 ral and encourages the worship of the intellect — an 

 idolatry as deadly to spiritual progress as the worship 

 of images made by human hands. The injury that it 

 does would be even greater than it is but for the moral 

 momentum acquired by the student before he comes 

 under the blighting influence of the doctrine. 



Many instances could be cited to show how the the- 

 ory that man descended from the brute has, when de- 

 liberately adopted, driven reverence from the heart and 

 made young Christians agnostics and sometimes athe- 

 ists — depriving them of the joy, and society of the 

 service, that come from altruistic effort inspired by 

 religion. 



