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The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole 

 Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw 

 In hillocks: the swift stag from underground 

 Bore up his branching head: scarce from his mould 

 Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved 

 His vastness. 5 



What little reason, in fine, there is for the loud 

 assertions of professorial omniscience may be 

 judged by the words of Vernon Kellogg when, al- 

 luding to the conflicting theories of those oppos- 

 ing giants of evolutionary science, Darwin and 

 Korschinsky, he says: 



After all, the Darwinian interpretation is proved only in so 

 far as it possesses a high degree of plausibility and makes a 

 convincing appeal to our reason. Of exact proof in the nature 

 of observed fact or result of experiment, or of mathematical 

 demonstration, there is little in the case either of the Darwinian 

 or the Korschinskian interpretation. 9 



Of exact proof, in brief, there is little to be 

 boasted in'the entire range of evolutionary theory, 

 as this leading evolutionist admits after pains- 

 takingly studying its entire history. Yet Kellogg 

 will not be held under suspicion of religious 

 prejudices, for he loses poise just as soon as 

 he forgets his scientific principles. He is a ma- 

 terialist of materialists, a causo-mechanist, who 

 rules out of court all evidence that conflicts with 

 his own favorite preconception. He has there- 

 fore the mind which the modern atheistic world 

 considers imperative for the passing of an "un- 



5 "Paradise Lost" 

 "Op. cit. 



