The Great Usurpation 



in their haste to endorse the degrading 

 doctrine and to accept a gorilla as the origin 

 of mankind. u Anyone," says Wood the 

 great naturalist, " who would fancy himself 

 to be descended however remotely from such 

 a being is welcome to his ancestry." 



The Church by no mental contortions or 

 intellectual gymnastics can ever reconcile the 

 dull negative assertions of Science with the 

 spiritual aspirations of Religion, the noble 

 altruisms of Christianity, or the divine visions 

 of the philosophers. 



u O Timothy, keep that which is com- 

 mitted to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain 

 babblings, and oppositions of science falsely 

 so called : which some professing have erred 

 concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. 

 Amen." 



