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on the other hand, who do not believe the 

 exact contrary." 



It is not necessary to point out to you 

 in this age the marvellous delusion under 

 which Professor Huxley was labouring 

 when he lectured the clergy at Sion Col- 

 lege ; and which delusion he subsequently 

 attempted to defend in his Lay Sermons, 

 by declaring that the orthodox doctrine, 

 or, as he termed it, " the Catholic doctrine, 

 was this that the work of creation took 

 place in the space of six natural days " 

 adding, " that the universe was created in 

 six natural days is hopelessly inconsistent 

 with the doctrine of Evolution " (p. 452) ; 

 to which he might have added with far 

 greater approximation to the truth, " that 

 the universe was created in six natural days 

 is hopelessly inconsistent with the infal- 

 lible Word of Truth, as recorded by Moses, 

 in the book of Genesis." If Professor 

 Huxley, with all his learning, had but the 

 faintest conception of the elements of the 

 Hebrew language in which Moses wrote 

 the first five books of Scripture, he would 



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