44 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



ded from a monkey than a Fuegian savage : he adds that 

 * it is not more irreligious to explain ( ? ) the origin of 

 ' man as a distinct species from some lower form, than -to 

 ' explain the birth of the individual through the laws of 

 'ordinary reproduction." The first excuse overlooks the 

 little fact that the simian ancestry involves the savage 

 also." 



Again, 



DARWINISM AND ASTRONOMY. 



TO THE EDITOR OF TEE TIMES. 



Sir, After the many solid arguments adduced in your 

 late admirable and most welcome notices of Mr. Charles 

 Darwin's recent work, I should like to make only one sug- 

 gestion. Mr. Darwin's theory requires us to believe that 

 animal life existed on this globe at a period when, according 

 to a theory much more plausible than his, the earth and all 

 the planets with the sun constituted but one diffused 

 nebula. Astronomers really have some data on which to 

 found this theory of theirs, since marked variations in the 

 conformation of several nebulae within historic times aro 

 now on record; whereas all the variations which Mr. 



