August 4, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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wore tlie human form were not brutes nor 

 even barbarians, but were as perfect in 

 brain and as capable in intellect as any 

 people now living, for: 



A. Geology, archeology and anthropology all 



concur in the facts that: 



a. The human race was not existent before 



the close of the glacial period; i. e., 

 about 15,000 years ago. 



b. Man was highly civilized 7,000 years 



ago, and has not materially changed 

 since that time. 



c. There is left only 8,000 years for the rise 



of map from the brute condition — a 

 fact which is incredible when we note 

 that man has not changed at all in the 

 last 7,000 years. 



B. Philological research demonstrates, the 



fact that the languages of all primitive 

 tribes have undergone a descent rather 

 than an ascent. 



C. A study of comparative religion shows 



that all forms of worship emanated from 

 a true Avorship of one supreme being. 



D. The ethical codes of the ancient Babylon- 



ians and Egyptians excelled in loftiness 

 and purity ours of the present day, which 

 have degenerated. 

 V. The scholars and scientists are not all evolu- 

 tionists, for: 



1. Dr. N. S. Shaler, of Harvard University, 



says : ' It begins to be evident to naturalists 

 that the Darwinian hypothesis is still un- 

 verified. Notwithstanding the evidence de- 

 rived from animals and plants under do- 

 mestication, it has not been proved that a 

 single species ^- * * has been established 

 by the operation of natural selection.'^ 



2. St. George Mivart, of the University College, 



Kensington, says of the theory : ' I can not 

 call it anything but a puerile hypothesis.' 



3. Dr. Etheridge, of the British Museum, re- 



marks : ' Nine tenths of the talk of evolu- 

 tionists is sheer nonsense; it is not founded 

 by observation, and wholly unsupported by 

 fact.' 



4. L. S. Beale, of King's College, London, says: 



' There is no evidence that a man has de- 

 scended from, or is or was in any way 

 specially related to, any other organism, in 



^ This is a misinterpretation of Dr. Shaler's at- 

 titude which is decidedly in favor of some evolu- 

 tion hypothesis. — P. B. H. 



nature, through evolution or any other 

 process.' 

 5. M. Stanislas Meunier, of the Paris Museimi, 

 argues in favor of special creation by an 

 infinite power. 



0. Virchow, speaking of evolution, said : ' It is 



all nonsense. It can not be proved by 

 science that man descends from the ape or 

 from any other animal.' 



7. Fleishmann, of Erlangen, said: 'The Darwin- 



ian theory of descent has not a single fact 

 to confirm it. It is a product of the imagi- 

 nation.' 



8. Edward von Plartmann in his work, ' The 



Passing of Darwinism,' shows that the 

 theory is now incredible. 



9. Dr. A. H. Sayes, of Oxford, says: 'The appli- 



cation of the evolution theory to the relig- 

 ious and secular history of the world, is 

 founded on a huge mistake.' 



10. Many others, as Donnert, Goette, Hoppe, 



Paulsen, Rutermeyer, Wundt, Zoeckler and 

 Griefswald, once supporters of evolution, 

 have now abandoned it. 



CONCLUSION. 



In view of the facts : 



1. That the advocates of evolution can not prove 



that life germs arose by natural processes; 



2. That evolutionists show an utter inability to 



prove that there exists a universal law of 

 development and improvement; 

 .3. That they can not prove lower species of 

 plants can be transmuted into higher; 



4. That in all excavations not a single connect- 



ing «link between species has been discov- 

 ered; 



5. That physical and mental science proves it to 



be impossible for an animal to come into 

 possession of a human soul, human mind or 

 human body; 



6. That geologists have silenced the voices of 



the advocates of the animal descent of man; 



7. That all scholarly men and scientists are not 



evolutionists ; 



8. That many who once upheld evolution are 



now abandoning it; 

 There need not be a moment's hesitation in 

 saying that the hypothesis of evolution, with all 

 the other speculations attached to it, has collapsed 

 beyond the hope of restoration. 



Phil. B. Hadley. 

 Anatomical Laboratory, 

 Brown University, 

 March 4, 1905. 



