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surdity in the highest possible degree," 

 as Darwin expressed it, or of a species 

 of " deluded insanity," as Carlyle rightly 

 termed it; and he likewise fulfils in his 

 own individual person what one far greater 

 than either Darwin or Carlyle said 3000 

 years ago, in the words of the inspired 

 Psalmist " The fool hath said in his 

 heart, There is no Grod." Happy would it 

 have been for Professor Seeley if he could 

 have realized the force of the observation 

 made by Professor PHILLIPS, Secretary of 

 the British Association at its formation, 

 to the following effect: "No one who 

 has advanced so far in philosophy as to 

 have thought of one thing in relation 

 to another, will ever be satisfied with laws 

 which had no author, works which had no maker , 

 and co-ordinations which had no designer" 

 Nevertheless, it is certain that the Ultra- 

 montanes among the Evolutionists go the 

 lengths of teaching that dead inorganic 

 matter is capable of evolving organic 

 life. The illustrious founder of the 

 Evolution theory rejected the idea with 



