IN MODERN SCIENCE. 



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" Not like the gods am I ! full well I know ; 

 But like the worms which in the dust must go," .• , 



" Both in prose and poetry man Is very often 

 compared to a worm ; ' a miserable worm,' • a 

 poor worm,' are common and almost compas- 

 sionate phrases. If we cannot detect any deep 

 phylogenetic • reference in this zoological met- 

 aphor, we might at least safely assert that it 

 contains an unconscious comparison with a 

 low condition of animal development which 

 is interesting in its bearing on the pedigree 

 of the human race." 



If Haeckel were well read in Scripture, he 

 might have quoted here the melancholy con- 

 fession of the man of Uz : "I have said to the 

 worm, Thou art my mother and my sister." 

 But, though Job, like the German professor, 

 could humbly say to the worm, " Thou art my 

 mother," he could still hold fast his integrity 

 and believe in the fatherhood of God. 



The moral bearing of monism is further 

 illustrated by the following extract, which 

 refers to a more advanced step of the evolu- 

 tion — that from the ape to man — and which 

 shows the honest pride of the worthy pro- 

 fessor in his humble parentage : " Just as most 

 people prefer to trace their pedigree from a 





