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was evidently unacquainted, as he boasted 

 he did not know a single person who 

 believed what is so plainly recorded in 

 the Bible, that unerring Word, which 

 has God for its author, truth without 

 mixture of error for its matter, and the 

 happiness of mankind for its end. Leav- 

 ing, therefore, this veritable and learned 

 Ishmaelite to his own devices, I pass 

 on to notice briefly two more of Darwin's 

 disciples who claim to be your cousins, 

 as they both happen to be denizens of 

 that great country, which has been so 

 finely described by a distinguished Ame- 

 rican statesman as "bounded on the 

 north by the Aurora Borealis, on the 

 east by the rising sun, on the west by 

 the horizon, and on the south as far 

 as we choose to go ! " 



Professor Andrew Jackson Davis may 

 be regarded as the Huxley of the Far 

 West in respect of Darwinism and the Origin 

 of Man, only he claims to have acquain- 

 tanceship with the spirit world, which the 

 latter despises, and so, of course, can 



