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now —strange reversal—those same leaders tell them that 
their preachments were of a faith without foundation. 
The words of Professor Osborn may be adduced: 
“Between the appearance of ‘The Origin of Species’ in 
1859 and the present time there have been great waves 
of faith in one explanation and then in another; each of 
these waves of confidence has ended in disappointment, 
until finally we have reached a stage of very general 
scepticism. Thus the long period of observation, experi- 
ment and reasoning which began with the French philo- 
sopher Buffon, one hundred and fifty years ago, ends in 
1916 with the general feeling that our search for causes, 
far from being near completion, has only just begun.” 
Sir William Dawson, of Montreal, the eminent geo- 
logist, said that the evolution doctrine is “one of the 
strangest phenomena of humanity, a system destitute of 
any shadow of proof,” (“Story of the Earth and Man,’ 
p. 317). Even Professor Tyndall in an article in the 
“Fortnightly Review” said: “There ought to be a clear 
distinction made between science in the state of hypo- 
thesis and science in the state of fact. And inasmuch 
as it is still in its hypothetical stage the ban of exclusion 
ought to fall upon the theory of Evolution. I agree with 
Virchow that the proofs of it are still wanting, that the 
failures have been lamentable, that the doctrine is ut- 
terly discredited.” 
One of the ablest evolutionists today is Professor 
Henslow, formerly President of the British Association. 
In his book, “Modern Rationalism Critically Examined,” 
he shows that Darwinian natural selection is absolutely 
inadequate to account for existing facts. 
Professor Bateson, who gave the Presidential Address 
at the Meeting of the British Association for the Ad-. 
vancement of Science, in 1914, bore striking testimony 
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