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firmament; the sun and stars its pendent lamps; its music 

 the murmur of streams, the pealing thunder, and the everlast- 

 ing roar of ocean ;" — I say this same Power could easily have 

 caused us to pass through the probationary stages of ascidian, 

 fish, reptile, monkey, and on to man, if it had so willed it ; but 

 as science has failed to show that it is so, I pin my faith to 

 the story in the grand old book, which tells us that man was 

 created in the divine image, and I accept the tradition that 

 Man sprang as Man direct from the hands of his God, 



Physiologists of every clime have for years been trying to 

 connect the faculty of speech with some definite portion of the 

 brain, with what result my preceding remarks will have shown. 

 If the scalpel of the anatomist has failed to discover a material 

 locus habitandi for man^s proud prerogative, — the faculty of 

 Articulate Language ; if science has failed to trace speech to a 



material centre/' has failed thus to connect matter with mind, 

 I submit that speech is the barrier between man and animals, 

 establishing between them a difiPerence not only of degree but 

 of kind; the Darwinian analogy between the brain of man and 

 that of his reputed ancestor, the ape, loses all its force, whilst 

 the common belief in the Mosaic account of the origin of man 

 is strengthened. 



A discussion ensued, in which the Rev. J. W. Buckley, Mr. R. Dunn, 

 the Revs. Dr. Barkley, J. H. Titcomb, J. Hill, D.D., V. Edwards, and 

 R. B. Girdlestone ; Mr. E. Haughton, M.D,, Mr. J. A. Eraser, M.D., 

 Mr. Hayward, and Capt. F. Petrie took part. Dr. Bateman having replied, 

 the Meeting was then adjourned. 



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