30 HOMO V. DARWIN. 



quadrupeds ! Black bears turn into creatures like whales; 

 and the monster Hippotherium gives birth to the horse ! 

 Then comes the crowning marvel of all. Quadrupeds pro- 

 duce monkeys, and from monkeys " Man, the wonder and 

 glory of the universe, proceeds." All this, of course, 

 requires time. But there is no difficulty with them about 

 time. The pendulum of Mr. Darwin's clock swings but 

 once in a century. With men of his type of mind, a 

 thousand ages are but as a moment. They know perfectly 

 well what took place during the " Upper Miocene period," 

 myriads of centuries ago. Our men of science can go back 

 almost a whole eternity, even to the time of the primeval 

 mist, when the foundations of the world were laid, and then 

 return and tell us how it was done ! Ugh ! ! I am sick of 

 them and their assumptions, and am reminded by them of 

 those ancient, but too true words, " Professing themselves 

 to be wise, they became fools." 



Lord G. You are waxing rhetorical, Homo. I must 

 remind you that facts and calm reasoning have more weight 

 than rhetoric. Besides, must not periods of enormous 

 length have been necessary to work out the changes in 

 the condition of the earth revealed by geology ? 



Homo. I do not question that at all, my Lord ; but I 

 object to men who call themselves " scientific," in order to 

 find support for a favourite hypothesis, leaving the light of 

 ascertained and indisputable facts, groping their way into 

 darkness, which would be felt by any but themselves, and 

 bringing us back from thence mere fancies of their own, 

 which they require us to accept as truths, and which, if 

 received, must tend to darken and degrade the noble nature 

 God has given us. It is clear, my Lord, from the paintings 

 on Egyptian monuments, and the mummies of sacred 

 animals found in Egyptian tombs, that, for three thousand 



