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animals lias by self-variation, or by selective breeding, given 
rise to another settled group of a higher and distinct kind. 
XXII. It will be observed then that the Christian Philo- 
sophy rests on every known fact of the physical, Mr Darwin , s 
as well as the moral life ; and of this latter estimate of 
much more indeed ought to be said than our dC 3 ‘ 
present address would allow. 
Naturalists who know nothing of theology, and theologians 
who know nothing of nature, may not sympathize with our 
enthusiasm for both. But the subject is far too grave to be 
dealt with in any other than an earnest spirit. We should 
be culpable if we shut our eyes to the issues raised by such 
a popular work as The Descent of Man. How the writer 
can profess that he is fC driven to his conclusions,” it is 
painful to think. Pacts being as they are, it seems to us, 
whatever it may be to others, as if nothing but eagerness 
to be rid of the thought of God could lead to such inter- 
pretations. To turn away from that thought, — is it not to blind 
the conscience ? — but only “ draw nigh to God, and He will 
draw nigh to you.” 
We have frankly stated our own views and principles, and 
we will, with equal plainness, state Mr. Darwin's in his own 
words : — 
“ Man is descended, from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and 
pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 
World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a 
naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as 
would the common and still more ancient progenitor of the New and Old 
World monkeys. The Quadrumana, and all the higher mammals, are pro- 
bably derived from an ancient marsupial (kangaroo) animal, and this through 
a long line of diversified forms, either from some reptile-like, or some 
amphibian-like creature ; and this, again, from some fishlike animal. In the 
dim obscurity of the past, we can see that the early progenitor of all the 
Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with 
the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important 
organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This 
animal seems to have been more like the larvae of our existing Ascidians 
than any other known form.” 
Suck is the result, such the conclusion to which Mr. Darwin 
says he is “ driven.” And he declares that “ any longer to 
believe that man is the work of a separate creation ” is to 
adopt the ignorant hypothesis of a “ savage ” / [Descent of Man } 
vol. ii. pp. 386, 389, 390.) 
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