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opposition to the Atheist's claim on behalf 

 of " spontaneous generation." The pro- 

 fessor has on this occasion not only 

 conclusively proved the truth of Scripture 

 and Science against the possibility of this 

 vain conceit of the Materialist, but has 

 executed his task in such a way, as to offer 

 a bright example of courtesy towards oppo- 

 nents, which all controversialists in general, 

 and especially those ardent and fiery souls 

 of the sacerdotal class in particular, might 

 profitably follow without injary to their 

 own cause. 



To return, however, to the consideration 

 of the arguments adduced on behalf of 

 man being descended from an ascidian 

 tadpole and an old-world monkey, I must 

 not omit to notice the important admission 

 made by Mr. Darwin in the full maturity 

 of age, and not very long before he died, 

 viz., that the whole theory of the human 

 race having been evolved from the larvae 

 of an ascidian tadpole, after so many years 

 of controversial disscussion, is " only an 

 hypothesis," with which every duly qua- 



