50 UNIVERSITIES VS. SCIENCE. 



think, of a hundred thousand years, there is no break in the chain. 

 An exceedingly slow but constant advancement, worked out by 

 the races themselves, spreads over the entire period. Where now, 

 it may be pertinently asked, in this continuous line of progression 

 from ape to kaiser, was the point at which immortal souls were 

 introduced into the race ? Brain capacity, intelligence, language, 

 cultivation, were all slow and toilsome growths. But the 

 attribute of immortality could hardly be a growth. Either the 

 spirit of man has an eternal duration and destiny, or it dies like 

 the soul of the brute. Neither has immortal life come with a 

 certain upright stature, or with a certain weight of brain, or with 

 the dawning of language or reflection, or with inter-breeding and 

 contact with some favored race. By all the principles of logic, 

 if the Europeans have immortal souls to-day, their forefathers 

 had them when the Romans stocked the arena with wild beasts 

 and barbarous Northmen their prehistoric ancestors had them 

 in the bronze age, in the stone age, and in the far distant ages of 

 the gravel and drift beds and their lowly progenitors had them 

 when they were only gibbering apes. 



I have had the pleasure of listening to the great apostle of 

 scientific theology in his famous attempt to prove the immortal- 

 ity of the soul from the most advanced researches of microscop- 

 ical science. It was ingenious and eloquent, but it turned out 

 as all such theorizing outside of the Bible is apt to do, it proved 

 too much. If there is an element of immortality in the myster- 

 ious life force that builds up, from undistinguishable germs, the 

 lion after his kind and the man after his kind, then the lion is 

 as immortal as the man, and all life is immortal. The distinguished 

 lecturer himself realized the dilemma, and met it with a sublime 

 expatiation on the delight it would afford the saints to have, in 

 another world, the pleasant recreations and the domestic surround- 

 ings of this. The spiritual hunter would pursue spiritual game, 

 and retrieve with spiritual dogs. It is the happy hunting grounds 

 of our Indian aborigines over again. Religion as well as history 

 repeats itself. 



A noted Professor of Geology has attempted to bridge over 

 the chasm between science and evolution by the hypothesis that 



