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theories broached by Darwin's disciples 

 respecting the origin and the pedigree of 

 your race, as contrasted with the simple, 

 truthful, and dignified manner in which 

 it is recorded in the only Book which has 

 God for its author, truth without mixture 

 of error for its matter, and the happiness 

 of mankind for its end ; where you may 

 learn for certain that man was created 

 from the dust of the earth by the fiat of 

 the Almighty in the image and likeness 

 of God. 



Contrast this with the palpable absur- 

 dities and infidel theories invented by 

 ancient and modern philosophers respect- 

 ing the origin of man. In the Symposiacs 

 of Plutarch, you will find a discussion 

 whether man grew out of a rock or an oak, 

 which has been renewed 18 centuries 

 later by your speculators of the present 

 day, who believe, or say they believe, that 

 man has "grow'd," like Topsy, from a 

 bed of weeds, which came in its turn 

 originally, Professor Huxley will tell you, 

 from an atom of PROTOPLASM. An anecdote 



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