HOMO YERsus DARWIN. 



FIRST DAY'S SITTING. 



TT having been agreed, on the recommendation of the 

 -L Judge before whom this case was to have been tried, to 



refer it for arbitration to Lord C , one of the ablest of 



English Jurists, that the evidence on which Mr. Darwin's 

 statements rest might be thoroughly sifted, and also that 

 the Plaintiff and Defendant should each speak for himself ; 

 on the opening of the Court, Homo, was called on to state 

 his ground of complaint, and spoke as follows : — 



My case, my Lord, may be stated in a very few words. 

 It is well known to your Lordship, and will not be denied 

 by the Defendant, that, during many centuries, it has been 

 acknowledged that my first ancestors derived existence 

 directly from a Divine source, and were, therefore, in a very 

 intelligible sense, the offspring of God. There are ancient 

 documents with which your Lordship is familiar, and which 

 many of the most powerful intellects our country has pro- 

 duced have regarded as divinely true, in which such is 

 certified to be the origin of my race. This sentiment is 

 confirmed by the traditions of all civilized nations, and it is 

 generally admitted by men of philosophic mind that my 

 nature bears on itself evident traces of its alliance with the 

 Divine. 



B 



