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of a witness he is) ventures to say in his ad- 

 dress as President of the National Institution 

 of Geneva (1869), '^ Personne, en Europe au 

 moins, n'ose plus soutenir la creation indepen- 

 dante et de toutes pieces, des especes,' — it is 

 manifest that at least a large number of natu- 

 ralists must admit that species are the modified 

 descendants of other species ; and this espe- 

 cially holds good of the younger and rising 



naturalists Of the older and honored 



chiefs in natural science, many unfortunately 

 are still opposed to evolution in every form." 

 Carl Vogt would not write thus. To him no 

 man is honored who does agree with him, and 

 any man who believes in God he execrates. 



In 1871, Mr. Darwin ventured on the publica-\ 

 tion of his " Descent of Man." In that work, he i 

 endeavors to show that the proximate progeni- 1 

 tor of man is the ape. He says " there is less j 

 difference of structure between the two, than| 

 between the higher and lower forms of apesj 

 themselves." Not only so, but he attempts to-' 

 show that the mental faculties of man are 

 derived by slight variations, long continued,: 

 from the measure of intellect possessed by 

 lower animals. He even says, that there is 

 less difference in intelligence between man and 



