et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. 87 



this makes all the difference. Man has not 

 been mechanically accumulated out of a 

 monkey ; he never was a monkey : the 

 monkey was never man : and when the 

 necessary jump came, we know not how or 

 when, man was not a monkey : he never 

 was one. A new principle was introduced, 

 when man in his lowest form 6 TT^WTO? 

 avOpwTros appeared upon the earth. It is 

 impossible that it can have been other- 

 wise. The confident assertions of the Dar- 

 winians on this head rest on nothing what- 

 ever but belief; they are guesses, not only 

 without evidence, but implying a radical 

 failure to understand, what is involved in 

 the gap between man and lower forms. 

 All men possess speech, language, the power 

 of rational communication. You may be- 

 lieve, if you please, that this power could 

 originate gradually from its negative : but 



