CHAPTER XXIII 



&quot;THE FOOL HATH SAID&quot; 



THE conclusions arrived at are plain. Hu 

 man history, as every trustworthy evi 

 dence points out, did not begin with a 

 state of savagery. While it is true that the race 

 slowly advanced in its material development, there 

 is no reason for asserting that the physical, intel 

 lectual and spiritual qualifications possessed by the 

 first man upon this planet were not essentially the 

 same as those of the races that exist today. 



Materialistic evolution, from clod to amoeba, 

 from amoeba to man, is worse than fable or myth. 

 It is an incubus on science, and in the moral order, 

 the great source of social irresponsibility, vice and 

 crime. For the modern rationalistic school and 

 the modern Socialist philosophy, religion is but 

 the product of fear and nature worship. In 

 blind defiance of reason, with its clear insistence 

 upon the need of an intelligent, personal Creator, 

 self-existent of His very nature, and thus essen 

 tially necessary, infinite, absolute and immutable, 

 the materialistic evolutionist makes his blind act 

 of faith in an uncreated matter, eternal and in- 



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