16 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



Faraday, Sir David Brewster, etc., etc., etc., and others 

 who like them have taken the highest honours in the 

 Universities, and distinguished themselves in the highest 

 departments of art, science, and politics, are quite beneath 

 me in mind and attainments, for if I am right, as I must 

 be, and therefore am, they of course must be wrong. 



I believe that mine is a much more valuable opinion, 

 and much more to be received than that of Humboldt, 

 who said of Strauss " what displeases me in him is the 

 scientific levity which causes him to see no difficulty in the 

 organic springing from the inorganic, nay, man himself, 

 from the Challaean mud." 



I believe that the following supposititious guesses are 

 "worthy of all men to be received," and should be 

 accepted by all the world as scientific facts and truths, in- 

 asmuch as " I have spoken ; " namely, 



I believe, " By considering the embryological structure 

 of man the homologies which he presents with the lower 

 animals the rudiments which he retains and the rever- 

 sions to which he is liable, we can partly recall, in im- 

 agination, the former condition of our early progenitors, 

 and can approximately place them in their proper position 



