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may well be proud, and who bowed to 

 the supremacy of Him who has revealed 

 Himself as the Supreme Creator in His 

 own unerring Word, or that bold specu- 

 lator who refuses to believe that man is a 

 separate act of creative power, and who 

 appears to be proud of his descent from 

 the ghost of a sea squirt, combined with 

 the form of an old-world monkey. 



Professor Huxley describes a remarkable 

 peculiarity belonging to the heart of your 

 ascidian ancestors, which it may be well 

 to notice. He says, " After the heart has 

 been beating a certain number of times 

 in one direction it stops, and then begins 

 beating the opposite way ; " * in which 

 respect they may be said to resemble 

 the least worthy of their human descend- 

 ants, who, like rats, invariably desert 

 a sinking ship, and turn heartily to 

 worship the rising sun ! 



Passing from the earliest of your proge- 

 nitors according to the Darwinian philo- 



* Lay Sermons, p. 95. 



