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analogy obtains between the cases. We may vaguely 

 suppose, with Darwin, that the continual exercise of 

 such powers as animals possess, may have developed 

 those of man. But our experience of animals shows 

 that their intelligence differs essentially from that of 

 man, being a closed circle ever returning into itself, 

 while that of man is progressive, inventive, and ac- 

 cumulative, and can no more be correlated with that 

 of the animal than the vital phenomena of the animal 

 with those of the plant. Nor can the gap between 

 the higher religious and moral sentiments of man, 

 and the instinctive affections of the brutes, be filled 

 up with that miserable ape imagined by Lubbock, 

 which, crossed in love, or pining with cold and 

 hunger, conceived, for the first time in its poor 

 addled pate, "the dread of evil to come," and so 

 became the father of theology. This conception, 

 which Darwin gravely adopts, would be most ludi 

 crous, but for the frightful picture which it gives 

 of the aspect in which religion appears to the mind 

 of the evolutionist. 



The reader will now readily perceive that the sim- 

 plicity and completeness of the evolutionist theory 

 entirely disappear when we consider the unproved 

 assumptions on which it is based, and its failure to 

 connect with each other some of the most important 

 facts in nature : that, in short, it is not in any true 

 sense a philosophy, but merely an arbitrary arrange- 

 ment of facts in accordance with a number of unproved 

 hypotheses] "Such philosophies, " falsely so called/' 



