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against the Darwinian theory: ‘If there has been a Darwinian develop- 
ment of animal life upon the planet, then it looks as if it had been car- 
ried out along four lines rather than one. Four stand-points of creative 
energy must have been assumed; four startings out of life must be ac- 
counted for; four mysteries, four miracles, four beginnings of creation, 
to be developed instead of one! But where all is mystery and miracle, 
additions are hardly noticeable. It becomes Mr. Darwin’s business, then, 
not only to suggest some plausible, rational mode by which one species 
could gradually or suddenly pass the short interval which separates it 
from another; his explanation must suffice to bridge the awful chasms 
which have always kept these four great plans of structure separate, 
along the lines of their development. He must show us how an animal 
of radial growth could be developed into one of linear growth. Nay, he 
must fill up the immense interval between the plant and the animal ; and, 
finally, the chasm between the atom of carbon or hydrogen, and the nu- 
cleated cell of albumen or fibrin, He must explain the genius of life 
itself, before he can make his law of natural selection stand for anything 
more than a beautifully worded description of the ills that all flesh falls . 
heir to when it is born upon this planet. How it is born upon the planet 
is another matter, and remains unexplained by his hypothesis. We do 
not get rid of miracles by chasing them back along the ages to the start- 
ing point, and concentrating them there. A line of battle is not neces- 
sarily vanquished and annihilated when it is rolled up by an attack upon 
its flank, when there is a reserved force at the other end.’’? ‘‘Man’s 
Origin and Destiny,”’ p. 78. 
There is, however, one sufficing explanation of the mystery and miracle 
of life—it is this: that there is a God, and that man has an immortal 
soul; that this life is but the beginning of an endless being. The good 
fruits of this faith is an argument of its truth; and man has consciously 
the sense within him that the life eternal awaits him; and he already 
here communes with Deity. Such a life and such a soul must have had 
a Creator infinitely superior to the being created. 
It is a decisive objection to the theory of Darwin that it takes account 
only of physical structure, while the greater disparity between man and. 
all other animate creatures consists in his high moral, intellectual, and 
religious nature. Lyell cites, to sanction Quatrefages in saying, ‘‘ that 
man must form a kingdom by himself, if once we permit his moral and 
intellectual endowments to have their due weight in classification.” 
‘* Antiquity of Man,’ p. 495. ‘It is by something completely foreign to 
the mere animal, and belonging exclusively to man, that we must estab- 
lish a separate kingdom for him,”’ p. 494. Lyell also quotes to adopt the 
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sumner, in saying, that the comparison 
should not be taken from the upright form, nor even from the vague 
term reason,”’ ‘but from that power of progressive and improvable rea- 
son which is man’s peculiar endowment.’”’ ‘‘ Animals are born what they 
are intended toremain, Nature has bestowed upon them a certain rank, and. 
limited the extent of their capacity by an impassable decree. Man, she 
