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On the first there may be much to be said, which is 

 for the present best left unsaid, even here. I only ask 

 you to recollect how often in Scripture those two plain 

 old words, beget and bring forth, occur, and in what 

 important passages. And I ask you to remember that 

 marvellous essay on Natural Theology, if I may so call 

 it in all reverence, the 139th Psalm, and judge for 

 yourself whether he who wrote that did not consider 

 the study of Embryology as important, as significant, 

 as worthy of his deepest attention, as an Owen, a 

 Huxley, or a Darwin. Nay, I will go farther still, and 

 say, that in those great words " Thine eyes did see 

 my substance, yet being imperfect ; and in Thy book 

 all my members were written, which in continuance 

 were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them," 

 in those words, I say, the Psalmist has anticipated 

 that realistic view of embryological questions to which 

 our most modern philosophers are, it seems to me, 

 slowly, half unconsciously, but still inevitably, returning. 

 Next, as to Race. Some persons now have a 

 nervous fear of that word, and of allowing any im- 

 portance to difference of races. Some dislike it, 

 because they think that it endangers the modern 

 notions of democratic equality. Others because they 

 fear that it may be proved that the negro is not a 

 man and a brother. I think the fears of both parties 

 groundless. As for the negro, I not only b eh' eve 

 him to be of the same race as myself, but that if 

 Mr. Darwin' s theories are true science has proved 

 that he must be such. I should have thought, as a 

 humble student of such questions, that the one fact of 

 the unique distribution of the hair in all races of 

 human beings, was full moral proof that they had all 



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