PREFACE. XIX 



Hence, in the spiritual application of 

 such important truths, we read of the God 

 of revelation commanding His people to 

 *' anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that 

 thou mayest see " (Rev. iii. 18). 



Many scientific men consider that the 

 attempt to support the doctrine of 

 " Evolution" by the theory of Natural 

 Selection has completely " broken down." 

 Hence, says Dr. Elarn, in his Gospel of 

 Evolution, " Natural Selection is merely an 

 euphemism for a negation a happy phrase 

 for something that has no existence. In 

 itself it is nothing ; in its application to the 

 explanation of development of structure 

 and function, it is full of irreconcilable 

 contradictions and incoherences. This 

 ought to be sufficient, but there are other 

 and even weightier objections. If Natural 

 Selection were a real agency, two definite 

 consequences ought inevitably to result. 

 First, we ought to meet with frequent, 

 if not constant, evidences of transition, so 

 numerous and so various, that all ' orga- 

 nized beings would be blended together 

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