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we arc told, created distinctly and separately each division of 

 organic nature, I need not stop to inquire. Neither need I 

 dwell upon a " a self-regulating universe/^ nor the belief that the 

 world would not come to chaos if left to law alone/^"^ Such 

 opinions are contradicted over and over again in the Bible, 

 which teaches that '^not a sparrow shall fall to the ground''^ 

 without His knowledge. 



50. Mr. Herbert Spencer tells us that special creation, which 

 is the creation of the Bible, is worthless by its ^' derivation,^^ 

 which is, of course, the Bible; '^worthless in its intrinsic in- 

 coherence ; worthless as absolutely without evidence.^^ 



51. Surely such language as this is plain enough to be under- 

 stood by those who are not included in the mysterious bonds of 

 Darwinism. Mr. Herbert Spencer has written two volumes 

 upon a Biology founded on Darwinism ; but he has the candour 

 to tell us he does not believe in the current theology .^^ 



52. In a recent review in Nature, July 11, 1872, of a work 

 called the Martijrdom of Man, we are told that the author, 

 after working out the evolution of animal and human faculties, 

 goes on to " urge all enlightened men to take part in the great 

 work of demolishing one of those institutions which, once the 

 highest attainable, has now become injurious. Christianity 

 must be destroyed'' And he concludes his work in these words : 

 ' But a season of mental anguish is at hand, and through this 

 we must pass in order that our prosperity may rise. The soul 

 must be sacrificed, the hope in immortality must die, A sweet 

 and charming illusion must be taken from the human race, as 

 youth and beauty vanish never to return.'^ 



53. As a commentary upon these horrid statements, the 

 reviewer, who is the principal writer in the chief organ of 

 Darwinism, instead of expressing disgust at the publication of 

 such impious trash, contents himself with calling the author^s 

 anti-Christianity " fanatical,^^ and advising him to " turn his 

 experience and ability as an ethnologist to the doing of more 

 solid work in some special department of his science'' ! 



54. In a paper read before the British Association at 

 Brighton, this year (1872), entitled, " Ou Aims and Instru- 

 ments of Scientific Thought,^^ by Professor W. K. Clifford, the 

 author comes to the conclusion that, " By saying that the order 

 of events is reasonable we do not mean that everything has a 

 purpose, or that everything can be explained, or that everything 

 has a cause, for neither of these is true.^' 



55. Among the arguments by which this ''purposeless^^ 

 and " causeless " theory is arrived at, we find the following : — 



* Wallace. 



