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dispiie 0 ” th f Mr ' Da !' win “P ,aced b =y™d all 
Creator implies creation >’ e " C f tha ‘ the l,se of the word 
"Mrcattiu'ti ,he W ’ h ° k ^“MrD y a™i?ftde 0 oIo e J eSSi0n 
jud S 4d a b W v k h ar ? ‘«f a exptTionT .hey^usf^bf 
being thi ™ r k of "a creator' h'” i ‘' egard t0 “nanisms 
of Man’ (n 6) =4’ aterulteranoes in the ‘ .Descent 
“ Spedes ” ( £ sul 4 7 , Clear< . But what organisms? 
“elemTntarv h „7 Sepa ,T e crea ‘ ,ons ” 1 in no instance the 
whetaffi P ' anat r i 4 his use ofcu S rren at ,hl r i„° J p V S’ 
had been purposely created the inference bein^ that Mr tT 
page iet the reader ru And read^ndbl £ t ‘SSfi^Stlu 8 , 
modes of expression ” were merely the residue of an eari e - 
Cuvier, sm , as we believe Prof. Haeckel would say why do we 
n M a ! m ? St ‘ dent ' ca l language in the edition of the “Descent 
in die “ OriMnhf h s alleged .. tacit r thdrawalof P hra ses retained 
corZion^Z °/o editi ° n> Wi ‘ h additl °" s and 
Mr - Cattell considers, further, Mr. Darwin’s later utterances • 
to the existence of 
creator and ruler of the universe^he says, ‘This has been 
answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intelleas ' 
but he does not answer it himself”; and adds in a foot-note- 
self as ’ n IT*\° n T th Dl - A f eUn S he preferred to describe him- 
self as an Agnostic, which means I don’t know ’’—the best 
“C^°mean.“ IT ^ -/T da ^ when asked what 
Mr n!! means. Then, evidently to confirm the view that 
fr. Dai win despised superstition, he relates that “He mentions 
a savage who with just ifiable pride stoutly maintained that there 
was no devil in his land. ’ Now unless Mr. Cattell believes that 
r. Daivvin s “ considerateness for the feelings of others ” fas 
he styles it) would have induced him to wilfully deceive men con 
cermng this or that “ ennobling belief ” (for the evidences of Mr' 
Dai wins theism are— for those who believe he entertained any 
respecT for truthfulness— not confined to one quotation amonj 
either his earlier or later utterances, but are legion), surely such 
assimilation of an imputation of deceit is unwise. If Mr Darwin 
be now experiencing that immortality which in the “ Descent of 
Man he seemed to regard as axiomatically established f referring 
his readers in a foot-note to a work by a gentleman who wrote 
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