60 SPECIES NOT 



Well, having arrived at the anthropoid ape, the 

 Gorilla for instance, the passage is inevitable. 

 There is no mincing the matter, the next step 

 is that of man himself. 



But where, I ask, and one feels now growing 

 serious, where, I ask Mr. Darwin, are your inter- 

 mediate forms? I tell you in the face of the 

 whole world of men who call themselves scientific, 

 that the deduction is the wildest, most absurd 

 and visionary, and unwarranted assumption. Take, 

 if you will, the degraded Bushman and the highest 

 ape, and I say that although so similar in many 

 parts of form, the difference is immense in ana- 

 tomical structure; and if this is so between man 

 and the ape, a fortiori it is so between man 

 and every other affinity in the living world. And 

 is this the result of the study of natural science 

 in the nineteenth century? This the result of 

 your forced analogies and homologies! Better 

 ten thousand times that Science, with every Pro- 

 fessor it ever had, were at the bottom of the 

 sea, than that it should have culminated in such 

 absurdity. 



But Science is still and icVl be vindicated. 

 There is One by whom the whole world was cre- 

 ated, "male and female created He them," and 

 there are hundreds and thousands of men learned 

 in science who will raise their voices against a 

 doctrine which, originating in the wildest impro- 

 bability, is supported by no proof, and leads 

 inevitably, whichever way you tread, to the most 

 ridiculous and absurd conclusions. No! there is 



