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inorganic compounds of carbon, hydrogen, 

 oxygen, and nitrogen."* And in his 

 Munich address, the same Professor 

 affirms that "the monera, consisting of 

 protoplasm only, bridge over the deep 

 chasm between organic and inorganic 

 nature, while they show how the simplest 

 and oldest organisms must have origin- 

 ated from inorganic carbon compounds" 

 Just as he supposes elsewhere that the 

 sand-eel bridges over the equally " deep 

 chasm " between man and monkey ! ! ! 

 Haeckel is so satisfied of the truth of 

 his theory, that he asserts again and 

 again that monera, worms and fishes 

 were our early progenitors. Misreading 

 or incapacity to understand the figurative 

 language of Scripture, leads men into 

 sad blunders; as, e.g., where the afflicted 

 patriarch cries, "I have said to cor- 

 ruption, Thou art my father : to the 

 worm, Thou art my mother and my 

 sister." f Haeckel teaches that "without any 



* Haeckel's Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte, p. 578. 

 f Job xvii. 14. 



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