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domain of science evolutionism has like ten- 

 dencies. It reduces the position of man, who 

 becomes a descendant of inferior animals, and 

 a mere term in a series whose end is unknown. 

 It remoyes from the study of nature the ideas 

 ,of final cause and purpose ; and the evolution- 

 ist, instead of regarding the world as a work 

 of consummate plan, skill, and adjustment, ap- 

 proaches nature as he would a chaos of fallen 

 rocks, which may present forms of castles, and 

 grotesque profiles of men and animals, but 

 they are all fortuitous and without signifi- 

 cance." (pp. 317, 318) 



" Taking, then, this broad view of the subject, 

 two great leading alternatives are presented 

 to us. Either man is an independent product 

 of the will of a Higher Intelligence, acting 

 directly or through the laws and materials of 

 his own institution and production, or he has 

 been produced by an unconscious evolution 

 from lower things. It is true that many evo- 

 lutionists, either unwilling to offend, or not 

 perceiving the logical consequences of their 

 own hypothesis, endeavor to steer a middle 

 course, and to maintain that the Creator has 

 proceeded by way of evolution. But the bare, 

 hard logic of Spencer, the greatest English 



