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\' 1 1 1 A u^nostir Darwinism. Allirms uiitunil selection aiid 

 ignorance dI" a Creator. 



riierc are live distini't t[uostions re;^ar<ling ttie origin of 

 man whidi nearly everybody eonfonnds. They are a.s fol- 

 lows : 



1 l\\ which of the processes indicated above did the hu- 

 man species have its origin? Were they created, or did 

 they descend from some ape-like ancestry. 



II. When did that event take place? W a- it six thou- 

 sand years ago? Was it just on the hither verge of the latest 

 geological epoch? Was it at the end of the glacial epoch, 

 in its middle, or just before its beginning, or was it further 

 back, at the beginning of the Tertiary that the first being 

 worthy to be called a man appeared on earth? It would 

 take far more than my liour to discuss this cpiestion of the 

 antiquity of man alone, and, furthermore, I am not invited to 

 discu.ss. but to define. 



III. The third inquiry is, where did the tir.st man alight 

 upon this planet? 



According to Moses and Haeckel, followed by nearly all 

 modern anthropologists, our first parents lived somewhere 

 near the Persian Gulf. But there is hardly a spot of the 

 habitable globe that has not been looked upon as the favored 

 iiirthplace of man. As no (juestion in science is closed as yet, 

 if anyone of my hearers is disposed to have his pet theory 

 regarding this matter he will not be excommunicated so 

 far as I am concerned. 



IV. Bordering closely upon the last (piery, and allecting 

 it. is the j»rol)lem of the unity of the species. We are all 

 aware that our distinguished countryman, Dr. Morton, fol- 

 lowed by Aga-ssiz and many others, held that our specias 

 had its origin, not in one, but in .several creations. The 

 weight of authority at the present time is in favor of a 

 single origin. Professor Henry wrote, in ISOli. '' The s|)ont«- 

 neous generation of either plants or animals, although a 



