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takably brutes, and do not in respect to mental powers rise above 

 other brutes lower in the zoological scale, much less make the 

 most distant approach to man, p. 25. Mind can never have been 

 evolved from a mind not in existence by means of any absurdly 

 alleged exertion of the nonentity, p. 27. Unfounded nature of the 

 assertion, that the peculiarly endowed brain-cells of man could ever 

 have been evolved from differently endowed brain-cells of lower 

 animals, p. 28. Any increased mental activity of an ape could 

 never have led to the evolution of the human mind, p. 29. Accor- 

 ding to the theory of Evolution, function determined structure, 

 but this is an absurdity. The idea that function preceded mecha- 

 nism is virtually admitting design, but shifting it from the Creator to 

 the Creature, p. 30. From the first, Man was endowed with moral 

 and intellectual faculties, and a capacity for development and im- 

 provement, p. 30. Advance in culture means merely that the in- 

 herent capabilities of man's nature have been called forth by educa- 

 tion, not acquired by evolution, p. 31. No valid grounds for the 

 thesis that man ever existed under any other embodiment than that 

 of man, p. 32. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — Amongst those who 

 encountered St. Paul at Athens and sneeringly 

 asked ' What will this Babbler say ? ' were certain 

 philosophers of the Epicurean sect. 



Like the philosophy of these same Epicureans, 

 the Theory of Evolution excludes all idea of a 

 personal Creator — all idea of design — and all idea of 

 a moral order in the world. 



Involving, as it thus does, the tremendous issue 

 of sapping the foundations of religion, such a theory, 

 to deserve being entertained, ought, at least, to be 

 constructed on facts the most exact and pertinent 

 and arguments the most logical and conclusive. 

 There ought not to be adduced in support of it any 

 conceits or assumptions under the guise of inductions 



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