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against the inclusion of any distintcly differenced 

 kind. If it be necessary to introduce a Divine 

 directing Intelligence to account for man, it will be also 

 needful to call in the same supernatural aid to account 

 for inferior species. It is conceivable that an evolu- 

 tionist, believing in a Divine Creator, might take up 

 the position that in the fulness of time God sent forth 

 His son Adam, formed in the womb of one of the 

 lower animals, and endowed with spiritual life ; but 

 an attempt of this sort to reconcile the doctrine of 

 organic evolution with belief in the supernatural 

 origin of the human race is not likely to command 

 assent. To accept it would be fatal to evolutionism ; 

 for it breaks the continuity by a special creation and 

 acknowledges the impossibility of interpreting all the 

 known phenomena of the cosmos without introducing 

 immediate supernatural agency, which, if admissible 

 in one instance, must be granted admissible in others 

 also. The distinguished naturalist, Mr. Wallace, who 

 shares with Mr. Darwin the credit of having origi- 

 nated the hypothesis of the formation of species by 

 natural selection, regards man as exempt from the great 

 regulative law of organic change. Mr. Darwin has 

 taken, as an evolutionist, a safer position, in boldly in- 

 cluding man body and spirit in the operation of his 

 principle. His hypothesis stands condemned unless it 

 is adequate to the task of ranging all organic life in 

 one continuous process. Just as, on the other side, the 

 -doctrine of the creationist is defective if he fail to 



