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Louis Biichner, in his Force and Matter, terms such 

 persons " mental slaves," " speculative idiots," and 

 "yelping curs," while boasting of his own "en- 

 lightenment, and the forthcoming deliverances of 

 his fellow-men from obsolete and pernicious pre- 

 judices " (p. 86). 



Professor Haeckel, in his Natural History of Crea- 

 tion, declares that "Mankind are divided into two 

 classes, those who believe in Evolution doctrines, and 

 those who do not ; the former being the thoughtful, 

 and the latter the thoughtless " (p. 577). Would it 

 not be better if Professor Huxley could follow the 

 bright example of Professor Tyndall, who in his 

 masterly articles on the so-called question of " spon- 

 taneous generation," has exhibited a courtesy 

 towards opponents, which both Professor Huxley 

 and many of the clergy in their heated controversial 

 discussions would do well to imitate. See Tyndall' s 

 Fragments of Science, p. 562. 



APPENDIX Q, PAGE 187. 



If common sense did not assure us that the 

 many passages in Scripture which treat on the 

 subject, were to be understood in a metaphorical 

 sense, those Evolutionists, who accept, as Mr. 

 Darwin did, a Supreme Creator, who made the 

 universe, and originally breathed life into one single 

 form, might quote certain passages in the Book of 

 Psalms and in Job in favour of the "beastly" or 

 " worm" origin of man. Thus in the latter, which 

 is probably the oldest book in the world, as old as 



