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Many other passages of similar import, and equally decisive, might be given. 

 And yet, within a month past I have seen one of our leading religious newspapers, 

 the Christian Observer, published at Louisville, Ky. , quoting Dana's Manual of 

 Geology, as scientific authority against the doctrine of evolution. 



TRISENTIA AND QUADRISENTIA. 



Trilobites are, so far as now known, the first animals that had eyes, although 

 many of their species were without eyes — hence they are supposed to bridge over 

 from the two-sensed to the three-sensed class — that is, from touch and taste to 

 touch, taste and sight; yet all these senses must have been sluggish, feeble, and 

 greatly generalized in this animal. Among the two-sensed animals must be 

 classed at least one vertebrate, the Lancelet or Amphioxus, of which Prof. Ten- 

 ney says: " It is the lowest of all the vertebrates. It is partially transparent, 

 has no skeleton, no proper head, and only a mere longitudinal slit for the mouth, 

 which is wholly destitute of jaws and teeth." Prof. Hseckel, from his profound 

 studies in embryology, concludes that this creature is an intermediate form or 

 true " connecting link " between worms and vertebrates ; and there is no indica- 

 tion that it has any of the senses except touch and taste. And Prof. Tenney 

 says even of our modern fishes, as to sight, " the iris neither contracts nor dilates, 

 and the pupil is not altered, whatever be the quantity of light." As to hearing, 

 *' the ear of fishes is inclosed on every side in the bones of the head, and consists 

 merely of a sac, representing the vestibule, and of three membranous semicircular 

 canals." The sense of hearing in these animals is therefore merely rudimentary. 

 And the Professor further says, "the sense of taste, of smell, and of touch, are 

 regarded as feeble." Again, in speaking of the Dinosaurs, he says, " they are of 

 gigantic size, and they combine in their structure reptilian, bird-like, and mam- 

 malian characteristics." They, together with the Pterodactylge, were aerous 

 reptiles, and were pioneers of the 



QUINSENTIA, 



Or five-sensed animals, which includes also all mammals and birds. And man is 

 commonly placed in this class; but the doctrine of evolution here joins interest 

 and evidence with the Christian Bible, and gives to man a higher rank — a sixth- 

 sense. 



Sexasentia. 



Prof. Dana {Manual, p. 579,) says: "Man is linked to the past through 

 the system of life, of which he is the last, the completing creation. But, unlike 

 other species of that closing system of the past, (significantly the zoic era of geo- 

 logical history,) he, through his spiritualrnXure, is far more intimately connected 

 with the opening future." 



Prof. Allman, a high authority in zodlogy. President of the British Associa- 

 tion of Science, in his inaugural address, Aug. 20, 1879, says: " From the first 

 dawn of intelligence there is with every advance in organization a corresponding 

 advance in mind. Mind as well as body is thus traveling on through higher and 

 still higher phases ; the great law of evolution is shaping the destiny of our 



