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15. With the Scotch professor agrees 

 his distinguished brother from the Emerald 

 Isle, Professor PORTER, of Belfast, who 

 justly observes, " Science shows that life is 

 an entity, a power, apart from and above 

 matter, but that in its essence it eludes 

 the keen eye of the philosopher. The 

 whole teachings of science are, so far as 

 they can go, in harmony with that simple 

 but sublime record, t And the Lord Grod 

 formed man of the dust of the ground, 

 and breathed into his nostrils the breath 

 of life ; and man became a living soul.' " * 



16. Professor St. GEORGE MIVART, a 

 learned member of the Church of Kome, 

 and author of so able a work on The 

 Genesis of Species, that it was commonly 

 said at the time, " Darwinism has received 

 a blow from which it will never recover," 

 in his Lessons from Nature, says he had 

 two main objects in view in writing the 

 Genesis : " f 1st, to show that the Darwinian 



* Porter's Lecture on Science and Revelation, p. 19. 

 f Compare the object which Darwin had in view 

 in his Origin of Species. See p. 116 of this work. 



