168 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



thought, conscience, and religious feeling and 

 belief on any such hypothesis. It may be said 

 that Mr. Darwin is not responsible for these 

 extreme opinions. That is very true. Mr. 

 Darwin is not a Monist, for in admitting crea- 

 tion, he admits a dualism as between God and 

 the world. Neither is he a Materialist, inas- 

 much as he assumes a supernatural origin for 

 the infinitesimal modicum of life and intelli- 

 gence in the primordial animalcule, from which 

 without divine purpose or agency, all living 

 things in the whole history of our earth have 

 descended. All the innumerable varieties of 

 plants, all the countless forms of animals, with 

 all their instincts and faculties, all the varie- 

 ties of men with their intellectual endowments, 

 and their moral and religious nature, have, 

 according to Darwin, been evolved by the 

 agency of the blind, unconscious laws of nat- 

 ure. This infinitesimal spark of supernatu- 

 ralism in Mr. Darwin's theory, would inevitably 

 have gone out of itself, had it not been rudely 

 and contemptuously trodden out by his bolder, 

 and more logical successors. 



The grand and fatal objection to Darwinism 

 is this exclusion of design in the origin of spe- 

 cies, or the production of living organisms 



