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many once gave to the infidel Materialists 

 of his day : " If a man is a Materialist, 

 we Germans think he is not educated" And 

 we should not forget the advice of the 

 wise King of Israel: " Answer a fool 

 according to his folly, lest he be wise in 

 his own conceit." 



As Professor Tyndall truly said, in the 

 peroration of his lecture at the Royal 

 Institution in 1877, after describing a large 

 number of experiments made by himself 

 with the view of testing the theory of 

 " spontaneous generation," " From the be- 

 ginning to the end of the enquiry there is not, 

 as you have seen, a shadow of evidence in favour 

 of the doctrine of spontaneous generation. 

 There is, on the contrary, overwhelming evi- 

 dence against it." 



With equal truth the same may be said, 

 mutato nomine, respecting the doctrine of 

 man having been gradually evolved from 

 lifeless matter like a bit of carbon. 



Mr. Noel remarking on those weak-kneed 

 Christians, who think it best to endeavour 

 to compromise matters by admitting that 



