RARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

BEQUEST OF

WILLIAM MCMICHAEL WOODWORTH
FEB. 19, 1915.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by

WESTERN TRACT SOCIETY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE.

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Did the 'World Make Itself?

Eternity of Matter.

Disproved by its Composite Nature.

Disproved by its Motion.

Evolution only a big Perpetual Motion Humbug.
Work of a Designer in the Structure of the Eye.
The Eye-Maker sees over a wide Field and far.
The Eye-Maker sees Perfectly.

The Divine Fact of Evolution Quite Different from the

Atheistic Theory.

State the Question Sharply-Why?

Darwin's Answer.

The Ancestral Monkey, Fish, Squirt.

Natural Selection.

Intended to Exclude God.

1. The History of the Theory.

Indian; Phoenician; Greek; Popish; La Place's Theory;

The Vestiges of Creation.

Herbert Spencer's Contradictory Theory.

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The Evolutionists' Hell.

Spontaneous Generation-two Theories; the Conflicting

Theories of Progress; Tremaux; Lamarek; the Cli-

matal; Darwin's; Huxley's; Parson's; Mivart's; Hyatt's;

Cope's; Wallace's; the Gods; Denounced by the Princes

of Science.

Agassiz's Deliverance Against it.

Imperfection of the Theory Eked out.

Huxley's Protoplasm.

Tyndall's Potency of Life in Matter.

Buchner's Matter and Force.

Lubbock's Origin of Civilization.

Consequences of the Brutal Origin of Man.

Propagandism of Atheism.

2. The Theory Illogical and Incoherent.

Darwin Admits Insufficiency of Proof.

Useless as an Explanation of Nature.

Self-Contradictory; e. g., Protoplasm.

Wallace's Self-Contradictions.

Incoherency of the Denial of Design with the Assertion of

Progress.

Failure of Alleged Facts to Sustain the Theory.

Does not Account for the Origin of Anything.

Wild Assumptions Made by Darwin.

Erroneous Assumption of the Tendency of Natural Selec-
tion to Improve Breeds.

Assumption of Infinite Possibility of Progress in Finite

Creatures.

3. An Unfounded Theory.

No Evidence of the Facts Possible.

None Ever Alleged, save Gulliver's.

Domestication Disproves Transmutation-Horses; Pigeons;

Dogs.

The Egyptian Monuments.

The Mummied Animals.

Birth Descent not Inferable from Gradation.

No such Imperceptible Blending in Nature.

The Fact of the Present Existence of Distinct Species.

Sterility of Hybrids.

Geological Species Distinct.

The Intermediate Forms not Found.

The Gradation Does not Begin with the Lowest Forms.

Four Kingdoms from the Beginning.

The New Species Began with the Giants.

The Gaps Fatal to the Theory.

The Abyss Between Death and Life.

The Gulf Between the Plant and the Animal.

The Gaps Between Species Which will not Breed Together.

The Gaps Between Air Breathers and Water Breathers, &c.

The Great Gulf Between the Brute and the Man.

Natural Selection Could not Have Deprived a Monkey of

Hair.

Nor Have Given a Human Brain.

The Brain-Worker Contravenes Natural Selection at Every

Step.

Civilization the Contradiction of Natural Selection.

Morality and Religion the Direct Contraries of Natural

Selection.

Tendency Immoral, Degrading, and Atheistic.