UNIVERSITIES VS. SCIENCE. 5i 



Adam was not the first of the human family, but simply the 

 head of a subsequent and favored race. According to him, there 

 were Adamites and Pre- Adamites, the first comprising the great 

 Aryan race of Eastern Asia and Europe, the last comprising the 

 aborigines of every country, which the Adamites have been 

 constantly displacing ever since the dawn of history. The 

 descendants of Adam received the divine blessings and all the 

 benefits of the Promises. The aborigines struggled up as they 

 could, on natural laws and the survival of the fittest. Now this 

 was a most ingenious theory. It fitted into the rough edges of 

 both sides of the great controversy, and gave to each a pretty 

 fair division of the earth's inhabitants. The whiter races, of 

 course, are given to the religionists, while the darker are consigned 

 to the evolutionists, the former with immortality breathed into 

 them by their Divine Creator, the latter well ! they are a little 

 doubtful ; they are in a kind of " no man's land." Still they may 

 have a sort of improved brute soul. The Professor thinks if he 

 were called to preach the gospel to the heathen, " his appeals to 

 the negro would be of a widely different character from his 

 appeals to the Aryan Hindoo or the Mongoloid American 

 savage." The Professor is logical. He is to be commended for 

 his honesty. For if the negro has a soul to save, neither he nor 

 I, if this evolution is true, can tell when he got it or how he 

 came by it. 



It has thus far been our unpleasant duty to run down a few 

 of the recent scientific theories, for the purpose of seeing where 

 they would land us. If we have seemed at any time to present 

 them as an advocate, it is only because by showing them in their 

 most favorable light, could we discover their dangerous tendencies. 

 We have found that, reduced to their logical conclusions, these 

 theories are in opposition to the Christian's simple faith, and that 

 they raise doubts and difficulties in respect to the scheme of 

 salvation and future life. Can it then any longer be said that 

 there is no conflict between religion and science. Is it not plain 

 that Christian Institutions of learning should discriminate against 

 all text books in which the development theory is made to explain 

 the great facts of the Organic World, and that they should look 



