DARWIN AND DELUSION. 5 



here tliey leave me, ^^ alone in life's desert"; yet, 

 I trust, in spite of Darwin, looking beyond all 

 mists and myths, witli a hope " still pointing to 

 heaven." That happy faith, or presmnption, cannot 

 be taken from me by ^^ jelly-fish, ape, or tailless 

 monkey," nor yet by any self-satisfied professor 

 who may choose to aim his grej-goose shafts at all 

 old and long-establivshed religion, — to efface from 

 the ancient traditional pictm^e those well-known 

 forms of Adam and Eve, the guileful and successful 

 serpent, the very sour and excessively bad apple, 

 and the insufiicient leaf. 



Before a man, however clever, eloquent, and 

 learned, boldly tries to upset a religion that has 

 been believed in, and is still believed in by many, 

 he should take care to be as well or better informed 

 on other matters dealt with, as he assumes him- 

 self to be on this the most important of all. Many 

 of Darwdn's physiological assertions are utterly 

 wrong. Quoting from Huxley, he says, ^^ The mode 

 of origin" (I qualify my belief in this) ^^ in man, dog, 

 bird, /rog, and fish, is, in the early stages of 

 development, identical"; but in the ^^ higher sj)hcrc 

 of anatomical identity," I do not deny that ''man^^ 

 is far nearer to apes than man or ape is to the dog. 



