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Darwin, and the other new lamps? Probably yon 

 have tried them all ? " 



" Of course ; for when a certain section of 

 thinkers, as they are termed, coolly assume that for 

 more than eighteen hundred years all outside THEIR 

 ways of thinking have been living in a fool's para- 

 dise, one naturally seeks to find how they make this 

 out." 



" And your sapient conclusion is - ? " 



" My own notion is that it is all very mar- 

 vellous ; and, notably, the evolved potentiality of 

 redundant, flatulent, and intricate verbosity in seem- 

 ing-like wisdom while settling nothing, not even a 

 single will-o'-the-wisp mysticism. Besides, their even 

 asking a definite conclusion on their premises, seems 

 a mistake." 



"You mean that if a Divine government be ques- 

 tionable, so is the truth of their speculations ? " 



" Quite so ; but that is hardly what I meant. The 

 mistake seems palpable all through ; it begins at the 

 beginning when they take up the position of teachers 

 and ELEVATORS of humanity, and this by premising that 

 humanity is evolved from the beasts, and like the 

 beasts must perish ; they then, at least some of them, 

 elevate morally by teaching that vice and virtue are 



