4:6 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



researches have, I think, proved more clearly than ever it 

 was proved before first, that man is a very recent inhabi- 

 tant of this planet ; and, secondly, that man has not been 

 produced by any process of selection or developement. . . 

 Darwin has left the origin of species, not where he found it, 

 but darker than ever ; for he has proved that there ought 

 to be no species at all ; and if his views were true, there 

 could have been no such thing." This is admirably put, 

 and not easily answered, and the following reply to the 

 scientists who object to the argument from design is irre- 

 fragable. ' The professor who sees in nature no traces of 

 a Creator, will find in a wretched piece of flint, as he peers 

 enchanted through his spectacles, the long-lost proofs of 

 pre-Adamite man.' The truth is that neoteric science is 

 ruined by the shallow sciolist, the lecturing professor, who, 

 the moment a new notion strikes him, airs it to an 

 audience of ladies at Albemarle-street or South Kensington. 

 * Natural selection ' ' protoplasm ' - ' air germs ' come 

 into fashion and go out again like paniers and chignons." 



Globe. 



And lastly our friend "Punch " whose wit has always a 

 good deal of wisdom in it. 



