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tools and weapons of ancient river-gravels and bone- 

 caverns brought their witness to man's high antiquity 

 and primitive savagery, since therein was the further 

 refutation of the doctrine of his fall on which the 

 scheme of his redemption rests. To these witnesses 

 were added those supplied by students of comparative 

 mythology as to the origin of the Creation, Paradise, 

 and other legends, evidencing these to be the product 

 of pre-scientific periods, when myths, gathering sanc- 

 tity with age, became the unquestioned explanations 

 of phenomena. 



Hence, the old positions, one by one, have been 

 abandoned on the advance of solid phalanxes of facts, 

 until the defenders, strong in faith in its ultimate im- 

 pregnability, have made their last stand within the 

 citadel of Mansoul. But all in vain. The venerable 

 walls, mounted with the old weapons of obscurant- 

 ism, ignorance, and misrepresentation, have been 

 stormed by the resistless forces of truth, and although 

 the opening of the gates to the victor be delayed, his 

 triumph is assured. But of this conflict — the Jehad 

 of Science — in which Huxley was " gladiator-gen- 

 eral " and inspirer, more anon. 



Meanwhile, to return to his work as interpreter, it 

 must be borne in mind that, hitherto, his exposition 

 of the theory of evolution had been limited to the 

 organic. Thus far he followed Darwin, the Origin 



