40 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



instead of an established fact, the whole basis of Darwin- 

 ism is gone. 



Mr. Huxley's doctrine is in the same category of assum- 

 tion without proof and against evidence. He is not more 

 logical than his fellows, because he is more peremptory and 

 scornful. Granting that in physical structure man approxi- 

 mates nearer to the ape than the ape to the lowest monkey, 

 this is no argument for either being descended from the 

 other, till we have admitted the two previous unproved 

 hypotheses, universal evolution, and the savage origin of 

 man. Again, physical structure is only one element in 

 specific classification, and in the case of man the least 

 important. His moral and intellectual nature is emphati- 

 cally his specific difference from other mammals ; and here 

 it is easy to retort "M r. Huxley's argument. The highest 

 ape is morally and intellectually more removed from the 

 lowest savage than the latter from the most eminent 

 philosopher. The savage may become a philosopher, but 

 the ape never becomes even a savage. Neither can we 

 detect the slightest tendency to such moral or intellectual 

 evolution. Mr. Darwin does, indeed, collect some inter- 

 esting anecdotes of quasi-human reason and affections in 

 the lower animals, but it requires an enormous exercise of 



