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the difference between his supposed 

 quadruped ancestor being simply this 

 that men put blinkers on their horses in 

 order to have them more under their 

 controul, and to constrain them to look 

 only in one direction ; Mr. Darwin puts 

 them on himself, thus excluding the light 

 of evidence around him, and compelling 

 him to confine his vision to the one narrow 

 line along which he alone permits himself 

 to look. 



Although Darwin freely acknowledges 

 that his views on the Evolution theory, 

 or the descent of man from an ascidian 

 tadpole and an old-world monkey, need 

 not hurt the religious views of any one, 

 he did not probably realize how many 

 religious persons there are who believe 

 that Scripture really means what it says 

 in relation to the origin of man. Believ- 

 ing that the Scripture language is to 

 be understood in its natural sense, it 

 certainly appears to teach, 1st, that man 

 was a separate act of creative power ; and, 

 2nd, that all mankind are sprung from a 

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