28 AN OUTLINE OF THE THEORY. 
right and wrong, because on a higher plane in the process 
of evolution. It strikes at the root of the doctrine that 
men are, by their origin and nature, under peculiar and 
special obligations to God. In the words of the late Dr. 
Robert Patterson, such a theory tends to ‘obliterate a be- 
lief in the divine origin and sanction of morality, and in 
the existence of a future life of rewards and punishments, 
and to promote the disorganization of society, and 
the degradation of man to the level of the brutes, living 
only under the laws of their brutal instincts.’ Such a 
theory is dishonoring to man and offensive to God.” 
When these discrepancies between a _ world-view 
governed by the Christian’s faith in Revelation and one 
governed by the theory of evolution are once clearly un- 
derstood, there will be no need to inquire, why, on the 
one hand, enemies of the Bible in all ranks of life greeted 
with such joyous acclaim the principle announced by 
Darwin and, why, on the other hand, a chief purpose of 
Christian apologetics has become the demonstration that 
Christianity ts justified even by reason in the world-view 
which it inculcates, and that, on the other hand, the evo- 
lutionary hypothesis is contradicted by the facts of re- 
ligion, of history, and of natural science. 
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