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inexplicable on any other view than descent from a 

 common progenitor, together with subsequent adapta- 

 tion to diversified conditions. ' Thus,' continues 

 Mr. Darwin, ' we can understand how it has come 

 to pass that man and all other vertebrate animals 

 have been constructed on the same general model, 

 why they pass through the same early stages of 

 development, and why they retain certain rudiments 

 in common.' 'Consequently,' he adds, 'we ought 

 frankly to admit their community of descent ; — to 

 take any other view is to admit that our own struc- 

 ture, and that of all the animals around us, are a 

 mere snare laid to entrap our judgment,' — ' are a 

 mere snare ' — let me repeat the words, — ' laid to 

 entrap our judgment ! ' 



In like manner, Mr. Darwin might have said 

 that all our intuitive ideas respecting the existence 

 of God must be, and are, mere snares laid to entrap 

 our judgment. But by whom or by what laid ? let 

 me ask. By the operation of natural physic D-chemical 

 laws ? 



To Evolutionists who adopt such a dictatorial 

 mode of arguing as this, no other answer ought to 

 be given than that of Job to Zophar the Naama- 

 thite : — ' No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom 

 shall die with you.' 



The similarity of plan in the construction of 

 their organs does not logically prove that animals 

 have been evolved from each other — the higher 

 from the lower — as Evolutionists maintain. Affinities 



