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they will be two compartments of one 

 great fabric reared to the glory of God." 



To declare, however, that life has been 

 evolved from dead matter, whether in the 

 shape of a piece of carbon or a fortuitous 

 concourse of atoms, can only be described, 

 in the expressive words of the late Thomas 

 Carlyle, as " deluded insanity." Hence 

 the saying of Humboldt's just rebuke of 

 Strauss, and which is equally applicable to 

 multitudes of Evolutionists in the present 

 day "What displeases me in Strauss,' 7 

 said one of Germany's greatest philoso- 

 phers, " is the scientific levity which causes 

 him to see no difficulty in the organic 

 springing from the inorganic nay, man 

 himself from the Chaldean mud." ! ! ! 



Professor Lionel Beale has forcibly ex- 

 posed this " deluded insanity," by remark- 

 ing that "the declaration again and again 

 repeated, and now taught even to children, 

 that the living and the non-living differ 

 only in degree, that the living has been 

 evolved by degrees from the non-living, 

 and that the latter passes by gradations 



