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works of Thv hands ; Thou has put all things under 

 his feet," every heart responds. 



Hence, we recoil from Darwin's statement: "We 

 thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quad- 

 ruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, prob- 

 ably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 

 World. This creature, if its whole structure has been 

 examined by a naturalist, would have been classed 

 among; the Ouadrumana, as surely as would the com- 

 mon and still more ancient progenitor of the Old and 

 New World monkey. The Ouadrumana and all the 

 hio-her mammals are probably derived from an ancient 

 marsupial animal, and this, through a long line of 

 diversified forms, either from some reptile-like, or some 

 amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish- 

 like animal. In the dim obscurity of the past, we 

 can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata 

 must have been an aquatic animal, provided with 

 branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same in- 

 dividual, and with the most important organs of the 

 body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly devel- 

 oped. This animal seems to have been more like the 

 larvas of our existing marine ascidians, than any other 

 known form." 



But when the first feeling of disgust abates, two sug- 

 gestions present themselves. While it is true, there 

 must be a difficulty in determining at what period of 

 such a course of development man appeared with an 

 immortal and responsible soul, it is equally true, that 

 in the case of every individual man we are unable to 

 say just at what time a soul was united to the body. 



The other suggestion is this : The theory of Darwin 



