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impossible, because the languages spoken 

 through that wide region, demonstrated that 

 its inhabitants must have had a common de- 

 scent, he could only answer that as ducks 

 quack everywhere, he could not see why men 

 should not everywhere speak the same lan- 

 guage. 



A still more striking illustration is furnished 

 by Dr. Lionel Beale, the distinguished English 

 physiologist. He has written a book of three 

 hundred and eighty-eight pages for the express 

 purpose of proving that the phenomena of life, 

 instinct, and intellect cannot be referred to any 

 known natural forces. He avows his belief that 

 in nature " mind governs matter," and "in the 

 existence of a never-changing, all-seeing, power- 

 directing and matter-guiding Omnipotence." 

 He avows his faith in miracles, and " those mir- 

 acles on which Christianity is founded." Nev- 

 ertheless, his faith in all these points is provi- 

 sional. He says that a truly scientific man, " if 

 the maintenance, continuity, and nature of life 

 on our planet should at some future time be 

 fully explained without supposing the existence 

 of any such supernatural omnipotent influence, 

 would be bound to receive the new explana- 



