OUR RACE AND ITS ORIGIN. 
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as much variation would be looked for between the two as 
is found between the highest and lowest animals of the same 
family. Or even if, allowing the views of those to be correct 
who adopt that of a simultaneous creation, with many distinct 
races of man, we should expect to find great and surprising 
differences between them. 
Therefore these philosophic speculations, ingenious as they 
undoubtedly are, do not afford any satisfactory information 
as to the origin of our race ; and it is quite as well they 
do not ; few will be found desirous to establish their relation- 
ship with the lower forms of life. But even by Darwin’s 
own theory of natural selection and struggle for life, we have 
a sufficient cause assigned for all the varieties of the human 
race which now exist, and which his warmest supporters 
cannot deny. 
The evidence obtained from geology on this point of in- 
quiry is satisfactory as far as it goes. The oldest human 
remains which have been discovered, clearly attest the fact 
that man was the same then that he is now ; his frame has 
undergone no change; from his first appearance on the 
earth’s surface to the present day, he has continued precisely 
the same. Two grand truths are obtained from geology : — 
First, that the epoch of man’s creation is comparatively re- 
cent, in fact that there has not been any later form of animal 
life discovered ; that he was the last and terminating* link in 
the creation. Next, that he was made a perfect man, not 
an approximation to one, and as easily to be identified as 
any of the preserved remains of our race, which are still 
found in the catacombs of Egypt, are with man in the present 
day. 
But what geology affirms, Giod’s holy word declares, and 
in plain and simple terms gives an account of our creation, 
which is both consonant with reason and geology. 
The Bible is by far the most ancient record existing, 
whatever may be affirmed to the contrary by the advocates 
of Egyptian, Hindu, or Chinese literature. No proof has 
yet been given that any of their writings can claim an anti- 
quity at all approaching that of Scripture, and in their 
