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such puerile vanities as these ; though 

 many of his unworthy disciples, who traded 

 upon his great name, played sufficient 

 pranks about matter and the power of 

 atoms enough to make angels weep at the 

 degradation to which they would fain 

 reduce man, made after the image and 

 likeness of God ! 



Hence a noted German Atheist, of the 

 name of Dr. Louis Biichner, who claims to 

 have published views identical with those 

 of Darwin seven years before The Origin 

 of Species saw the light,* declares with 

 equal confidence and candour, that such 

 opinions "are perfectly irreconcilable with 

 the idea of a personal Almighty Creative 

 power, which could not have adopted 

 such a slow and gradual labour, and have 

 rendered itself dependent upon the na- 

 tural phases of the development of the 



earth."t 



Although Darwin has not the Atheistic 



* See Appendix I. 



f Kraft und Stof, " Force and Matter," p. 84. 



