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at what period, in the transitional history of the 

 human race does this Divine fix upon, as that 

 to which the Mosaic account, upon which our 

 religion is founded, refers? 



We must have no trifling upon this subject. 

 By the passage I have quoted, Mr. Darwin has 

 opened out a much wider issue, which his inju- 

 dicious friends have helped to enlarge. It may 

 be urged, that the same argument was used against 

 geological discoveries. I deny the force of this 

 entirely. There is this difference between the 

 two that while, by a different interpretation of 

 a few words in the first chapter of Genesis, 

 geology can be reconciled with Scripture; yet, if 

 Mr. Darwin 's theory is true, the whole Mosaic 

 account of creation must be false, and thus a 

 blow is struck at the root of religion itself. If 

 Mr. Darwin, or his friend, says, u but man was 

 one of my original forms specially created in the 

 beginning of time," he is equally opposed by 

 Scripture and geology, both of which define his 

 special creation at the same time. 



If no other species was specially created, it 

 would be most unwise to say that man was ; and 

 nothing can be further from the meaning of the 

 Darwinian school than this, as was clearly evi- 

 denced by the line of argument taken by Professor 

 Huxley, at Oxford, in opposition to Professor 

 Owen, in order to prove that the anatomical 

 difference was greater between the highest and 

 lowest monkey, than between the highest ape 

 and man. 



