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arrogance in the darkest ages of Papal 

 superstition surpassing, or perhaps equal- 

 ling, the arrogance displayed in the utter- 

 ances quoted above. * 



The whole question, as Professor Max 

 Miiller justly asked, " Is it true ? " resolves 

 itself into this Is man's origin a separate 

 act of creative power on the part of an 

 Omnipotent Being whom we call God, as 

 revealed in His word, or has man been 

 evolved through an infinite cycle of ages, 

 either from a monkey and an ascidian 

 tadpole, according to Darwin ? or from 

 the " sand-eel," in which Professor Haeckel 

 thinks he has discovered the missing link 

 between man and beast ? or from that 

 still more original particle of inorganic 

 matter called monera, i.e., the primeval 

 atom of protoplasm, according to the theory 

 of Professor Huxley ? or from that of Pro- 

 fessor Oken, the plagiarist of Lucretius, as 



* See a Layman's protest in the Contemporary 

 Review of April, 1881, entitled, " The Arrogance of 

 Modern Scepticism." 



