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It seems incredible that even the most enthusiastic 

 and imaginative of cosmic theorists should have 

 selected as the pivot round which to make his 

 evolutional scheme revolve the evanescent individual 

 difference. Impossible, assuredly, it would have been 

 had Darwin possessed the vast and comprehensive 

 intelligence with which the author of the creed of 

 science has been credited ; had he, indeed, possessed 

 any true insight into the secret ways of Nature. 



It will now be seen that in dealing with Darwin's 

 doctrine of evolution, which has become by universal 

 adoption the accepted creed of science, I have/ ut>t, 

 in any way whatever, been dealing with a scientific 

 creed that is, a creed that is based upon the facts and 

 phenomena of the natural world, and that was accepted 

 after a careful and painstaking investigation of its 

 fundamental propositions and processes. 



I have been dealing with a creed 'composed of 

 speculative audacities, of imaginary cosmic forces and 

 principles, of daring leaps into the unknown, that have 

 no connection or correspondence with the known 

 forces, processes, and phenomena of Nature, and that 

 are demonstrably false. Nothing more crude, more 

 unscientific in construction, more frivolously daring 

 in invention, has been offered for the acceptance of 

 humanity, since the amazing cosmic theories of the 

 semi-Christian, semi-pagan Gnostic philosophers were 

 formed. 



All the theoretical assumptions of Darwin which 

 make up his doctrine of the Origin of Species, and 



