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The "Atoms "are 



NOT the Beginning. 



They have "all the characteristics of 

 MANUFACTURED ARTICLES." 



Sir John Herschel. 

 14 No Theory of Evolution can be formed to account for them." 



Professor Maxwell. Professor Pritchard. 

 Sir William Thomson : 



"The assumption of atoms can explain no pro- 

 perty of body which has not previously been 

 attributed to the atoms themselves." 



CHAPTER XL 



APES. 



Professor Tyndall's postulate : 



That human ancestors were not human. 

 Mr. Darwin's : 



"A series of forms graduating insensibly 

 From some ape-like creature 

 To man as he now exists." But 

 (i.) The series is not a series. 



It has no continuity, and no concatenation, 

 (ii.) It does not " graduate insensibly." 



It exhibits " breaks": "wide,- sharp, and 



denned." 

 These breaks " incessantly occur in all parts 



of the series." 



(iii.) The "ape-like creature" is wholly hypo- 

 thetical. 



It is absolutely non-existent. 

 There is no evidence that it ever was other- 

 wise. 

 Professor Huxley's 



Cautious and conditional generalizations 

 Adverse to Mr. Darwin's theory. 



