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be one, but we will not accept an illusory alternative. We will not be 
compelled to adopt that which afterwards vanishes from us.” Then Dr. 
McCausland asks ; — 
“ How are we to account for these black Negroes, yellow Mongols, and red 
Egyptians, proved by the ancient monuments of Egypt to have been in 
existence in large and distinct communities about the time of Exodus 
(1500 b.c.), unless we are prepared to admit that they had other progenitors 
than the Caucasian Adam ? ” 
In answer to that, I would simply say that we do not know two things : we 
do not know the rate of progress of change in the past periods referred to, 
with respect to which Dr. McCausland is speculating ; and we do not 
know the force of the power then in operation to produce those great changes. 
Nothing could be a more simple and pertinent illustration than such an 
instance as this : suppose a negro comes here and meets another man 
whose age he does not know, and whom he has not seen for a year. He 
says, “ I see you have grown an inch since I last saw you ; and as you are 
now six feet high, you must be, at the rate of an inch a year, seventy-two 
years old.” (Laughter.) It is easy for us to imagine that a negro would make 
a ludicrous blunder like that ; though, if the negro were here, he might say, 
“ Why do you attribute such gross blundering to me 1 ” But we have heard 
the same sort of thing to-night. We have heard it said that the negro is a 
being of an inferior race ; but the negro himself would tell us that he was 
made of the original colour, and that we are pale-faced because we have been 
bom under a watery climate, where the colour has been washed out. 
(Laughter.) It is a fact admitted by Sir Charles Lyell himself, — who must be 
deemed one of the greatest and most eminent of those who hold the theory 
of gradual change and of immense periods of time to bring about all the 
existing phenomena of nature — it is a fact admitted by Sir Charles Lyell 
himself, who would estimate the ages which have passed by what has taken 
place on the Scandinavian coasts in the last ten or fifteen centuries, that no 
period of ages would have been sufficient to scoop out the bed and valley of 
the Thames. At this very moment it is admitted that when you give these 
people all the periods they require, they have not got quite enough, but must 
have something more : there is some flaw in their argument which requires 
further buttresses and props. 
Bev. L. B. White. — There is one point which Dr. McCausland seems to 
me not to have attempted to make out. Supposing the theory of the paper 
to be true, that the Caucasian race — the race which comes from Adam — is 
one made after God’s image, and that the other races have not been made 
after God’s image, it is very difficult to understand in what relation those 
two classes, supposed to be co-existent, stand to one another. I confess I 
cannot understand how the author can think his theory is agreeable to the 
teaching and doctrines of Scripture, or to the command to pieach the 
gospel to every creature, which goes upon the foundation that all men were 
made in the image of God, but have fallen through the sin of Adam. The 
author also lays it down as quite indisputable that it is impossible to suppose 
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