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some distant approach to this state of mind." On Mr. 

 Darwin's hypothesis, Divine benevolence, if it exist at all, 

 has never been exercised towards man ; Divine revelation is 

 a fable ; man is an inscrutable mystery ; he is an enigma, 

 insoluble even by himself; his hope of immortality is a 

 dream ! 



I must add to what I have said that, in my judgment, 

 Homo himself is not free from error. He seems anxious to 

 uphold " the dogma of separate creations," as Mr. Darwin 

 calls it. But this is not — though Homo seems to think 

 so — a dogma contained in the Bible. I read there, after 

 the formation of the heavens and the earth, of but one 

 separate act of creation, and that has reference to man. 

 Scripture nowhere teaches that the Divine Being created 

 each kind of creature separately. In the first chapter of 

 Genesis He is represented as issuing the command, " Let 

 the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that 

 hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the 

 open firmament of heaven." " Let the earth bring forth 

 the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping 

 thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was 

 so." Farther light is given in the words, " The Spirit of 

 God moved " brooded " upon the face of the waters," as the 

 source and fountain of life. While the inferior creatures 

 are thus summoned into existence by God, man is repre- 

 sented as having been created separately — by himself We 

 read concerning him, "And the Lord God formed man 

 of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 

 the breath of life ; and man became a living soul." But 

 no one would understand these words as meaning that the 

 Divine Being appeared visibly upon this earth, and that, 

 taking a handful of its dust, he moulded it into human 

 form, and then breathed into it the spirit of life. All that 



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