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up from the first man to the first ape; if, with 

 Mr. Darwin, in violation of all observations, you 

 break the barrier between the classes of vegetable 

 and animal life, and suppose every animal to be 

 an improved vegetable, you do but carry your 

 difficulty with you into the vegetable world; for 

 how could there have been seeds, if there had 

 been no plants to seed them? and if you carry 

 up your thoughts through the vista of the Dar- 

 winian eternity, up to the primaeval fungus, still 

 the primaeval fungus must have had a humus, 

 from which to draw into its venerable vessels, 

 the nourishment of its archetypal existence, and 

 that humus must itself be a 'false mark' of a 

 pre-existing vegetation." (Page 253.) 



On the religious question, this able reviewer 

 remarks, "The words graven on the everlasting 

 rocks, are the words of God, and they are graven 

 by His hand. No more can they contradict His 

 word, written in His book, than could the words 

 of the old covenant, graven by His hand on the 

 stony tables, contradict the writings of His hand 

 in the volume of the new dispensation. There 

 may be to man difficulty in reconciling all the 

 utterances of the two voices. But what of that? 

 He has learned already that here he knows only 

 in part, and that the day of reconciling all ap- 

 parent contradictions, between what must agree 

 is nigh at hand." (Page 257.) 



"Few things have more deeply injured the 

 cause of religion, than the busy, fussy energy 

 with which men, narrow and feeble alike in faith 



