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doubt, to be received as true ; but even with the 

 materials to his hand, how short-sighted is man to 

 trace it how utterly blind a mere wanderer in 

 darkness while all around him is light !" And again, 

 in another place, he observes : "The endless variety 

 of the objects of Nature, though doubtless in the 

 whole connected by almost imperceptible links, yet 

 to the student of only a part, is, as it were, inter- 

 rupted here and there by sudden breaks, origins of 

 fresh series, from where again the chain goes on." 



This much he granted ; but to suppose that all 

 animated things could be traced to a monad was in 

 his eyes nothing but a crude fancy and an assump- 

 tion the reverse of scientific. 



He found it utterly impossible to deny that if 

 the Darwinian theory, thus carried to its furthest 

 limit, be true, then the Bible is untrue ; and when 

 placed in these two alternatives he decidedly pre- 

 ferred resting his faith on the older Book. To quote 

 his own words, this is simply what he said : " The 

 Book of Genesis most certainly does state that some 

 kinds of creatures were created at different periods 

 of time from others, in a regular order, and that the 

 doctrine of evolution is absolutely irreconcilable 

 with any such statement, holding, as it does, that 

 there was no creation at all, but that all the crea- 

 tures in the world, and, I suppose, planets too, came 

 down in ' the sequence of events ' (these are their 

 own words, the words of these 'men of science/ 

 mirabile dictu) from some one original monad, as 

 they call it, the creation and the word alike of their 



