say this without at the same time acknowledging the immense obligation under which theologians lie to the masters of the sciences of astronomy and geology; for they have enlarged our ideas, brushed away many a crude popular fallacy, and enabled us to understand more and more of the perfect ways of God.

GUYOT:

Any length of time that Darwin might desire for his transformations would never suffice to make of the monkey a civilizable man. "Creation," p. 126.

HÆCKEL.-Dr. Hæckel, the greatest living exponent of evolution, said to a company of naturalists, in 1877, that

the two principles of inheritance and adaptation explain the development of the manifold existing organisms, from a single organic cell; dispensing forever with the need of a Creator, and moreover, a creature composed of only one of these omnipotent cells is shown by certain zöological inquiries to be possessed of motion, sensibility, perception, and will.-Quoted by Professor J. B. Ewing, in the "Tokio Course of Lectures," p. 101.

HUXLEY:

It is not absolutely proven that a group of animals having all the characters exhibited by species

in nature has ever been originated by selection, whether artificial or natural.- "Lay Sermons,” p.

226.

ST. GEORGE MIVART.-This able scientist says, in regard to Darwin's doctrine of Natural Selection :

I cannot hesitate to call it a puerile Hypothesis.

THEODORE T. MUNGER, D.D.-This popular writer speaks of evolution as

a finite system, a merely phenomenal section of the universe and of time, with no whence, nor whither, nor why, a system which simply supplies man with a certain kind of knowledge, but solves no problem that weighs on his heart, answers no question that he much cares to ask, and throws not one glimmer of additional light on his origin, his nature, or his destiny." Freedom of Faith," p. 26.

PROFESSOR PIPER :

The French Academy, it seems, refused to acknowledge Darwin as a scientific man at all, declining to admit him a member of that body, on the ground that his so called science was no science, and that it was made up for the most part of mere assumptions; and Dawson says in his book entitled "The Earth and Man," p. 330, "Let anyone take up either of Darwin's great books, or Spencer's 'Biology,' and merely ask himself, as he reads each para

graph, 'What is assumed here, and what is proved?' and he will find the whole fabric melt away like a vision." Further he says: "The theory of the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest, as applied to man, though the most popular phrase of evolutionism at present, is nothing less than the basest and most horrible of superstitions. It makes man not merely carnal but devilish. It takes his lowest appetites and propensities, and makes them his God and creator."-Mind and Nature, June, 1885.

In his "Natural History of Man" (p. 70) QUATREFAGES:

While recognizing the convenience of Darwin's theory in the interpretation of a great number of facts, he is obliged to reject it because it is irreconcilable with other facts, but chiefly because in disaccord with physiological laws, such as the sterility of hybrids.

SIR WYVILLE THOMPSON.-In "Challenger Reports," Vol. I., this scientist declares that recent investigations of the abyssal fauna of the ocean by the ship Challenger

refuse to give the least support to Darwinism.

TYNDALL.-Professor Tyndall says:

Those who hold the doctrine of evolution are by no means ignorant of the uncertainty of their data,

and they only yield to it a provisional assent.-" Scientific Use of the Imagination," p. 469.

VAN BENEDIN.-Professor Van Benedin, of the University of Louvain, quoting Oswald Heer in " Le Mond Primitive," says:

The more we advance in the study of Nature the more profound is our conviction that belief in an Almighty Creator, can alone resolve the enigmas of nature, as well as those of human life.

VIRCHOW:

As a matter of fact, we must positively recognize that there exists as yet a sharp line of demarcation between man and the ape. We cannot teach, we cannot pronounce it to be a conquest of science, that man descends from the ape or from any other animal.-Quoted by Joseph Cook, in Monday Lecture of April 15, 1878.

VON BISCHOFF.-This scientist is a specialist in comparative anatomy. He tells us that as he pursues his investigations in the comparison of man and the so-called anthropoid apes

the differences between men and apes become great and fundamental.

WINCHELL. Professor Winchell says "The Doctrine of Evolution," p. 54):

The great stubborn fact which every form of the theory [natural selection] encounters at the very outset is that, notwithstanding variations, we are ignorant of a single instance of the derivation of one good species from another. The world has been ransacked for an example, and occasionally it has seemed for a time as if an instance had been found of the origination of a genuine species by so-called natural agencies; but we only give utterance to the admissions of all the recent advocates of derivative theories when we announce that the long-sought Experimentum crucis has not been discovered.

V. A VOICE FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

PROFESSOR GEORGE E. Posт, M.D., of the Syrian Mission, is a gentleman of supe. rior scientific attainments. He visited the British Museum, met Mr. Etheridge, who is in charge of a department, and is acknowledged to be one of the foremost of British experts in his specialty. This gentleman gave his opinion on evolution. The following letter sent to the Evangelist by a former colleague of Dr. Post describes the interview :

LONDON, August 2, 1885. Yesterday I was in the Natural History Department of the British Museum. I had business touch