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our philosophy, poetry, science and art 

 Plato, Shakespeare, Newton and Raphael 

 are potential in the fires of the sun." * 



2. Let me quote the testimony of a very 

 distinguished foreigner, Professor Agassiz, 

 whose scientific knowledge was such that 

 he was as able to give an authoritative 

 opinion of the " Evolution theory " as 

 any man of modern times. I have already 

 noticed what he says of the Transmutation 

 theory, viz., that " it .was wholly without 

 foundation in fact." And again, in his 

 Comparative Anatomy, he plainly contra- 

 dicts the Darwinian theory. " Man," he 

 says, does not descend from the mammals 

 which preceded him into the tertiary age." 



3. In the same way Professor Sir 

 Richard Owen, of the very highest au- 

 thority in such matters, contradicts the 

 Darwinian hypothesis by declaring that 



* Scientific Use of the Imagination, p. 47. See an 

 excellent article in Blackwood" 1 s Magazine, November, 

 1874, on "Modern Scientific Materialism." Also 

 another on Professor Tyndall's teaching in the same 

 magazine of July, 1871. 



