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seldom loses it head or waxes enthusiastic over crimes- 

 greater than those it attempts to cure. 



So much then, we may say in reply to those who are 

 afraid of Evolution because it is a materialistic philosophy. 

 As the immense body of modern knowledge, in all its vast, 

 variety, is knowledge of the properties and actions of 

 matter, it can be safely left to defend itself. That man- 

 kind will ever leave it to go back to the groping leadership 

 of metaphysics or the pursuit of the elusive mirage of so- 

 called spiritual truth, there is not the remotest possibility. 

 Like the statue of Liberty in our glorious bay, the material- 

 istic philosophy of Evolution will lift up its electric torch 

 over unnumbered generations of the future, scattering the 

 white light of its all-illuminating truth over land and o'er 

 sea, and over the ever increasing knowledge and happiness- 

 of all wise and free nations. 



