Archæology may prove the existence of man on earth long prior to the period assigned for the creation of Adam, but that will only prove the existence. of pre-Adamites and not affect the Bible chronology. These latter, or the inferior races, have never equaled in any respect the Adamic race, and have never shown any aptitude or capacity for civilization and true religion, though some of them have had centuries of opportunity. What we find them now they have always been, and we are without the slightest reason to suppose that their most remote ancestors were above them in the scale of humanity; and it is just as absurd and unsupported by evidence to suppose that the Adamic race was originally in a similar low moral and intellectual state and worked out its present elevation. History furnishes no such record, nor is there any proof of a savage race having risen to civilization by their own unaided efforts. In point of fact, no people have ever become civilized by propinquity to civilized races, and when inferior races have acquired something of the civilization of the Caucasian, they have proved themselves incapable of retaining it. In Africa, from time immemorial, the negro has been in contact with Caucasian civilization, but has never acquired it, contented, as he has always been, with the necessities of animal life. In America, the Indians have witnessed the white. man's civilization for three hundred years, but without profit; if capable of civilization, why did they

not preserve the ancient civilization of Peru, Central America and Mexico? It perished with the race capable of developing and retaining it. The civilized and uncivilized races have always been separate and distinct, because God made the former superior and the latter inferior and incapable of reaching the higher level.

From this theory, that God made the yellow and the black races inferior, physically, mentally and morally, we infer that he designed them for a subordinate and dependent position; that to impose upon them the duties, obligations and civilization of the superior race and give them the same mental and moral training, is to do violence to their nature and must result in evil; that the Creator, having made different races, intended that blood purity should be preserved, and for this purpose implanted the instinctive mutual and universal repulsiveness of races; that political and social equality is unnatural and repugnant to the best human instincts, and that miscegenation, or admixture of races, is not only an enormous sin against God, but a degrading bestiality which can result only in unmitigated evil and final destruction. Scientific thought must return to this theory, which is in unison with science, Scripture, reason, history, common sense and natural instincts. It will be found to have a unity and consistency in all its parts, which commend it as true.

CHAPTER IV.

EVOLUTION.

DEFINITION AND DIFFERENT THEORIES OF EVOLUTION.-DIFFICULTY OF ACCOUNTING FOR LIFE.-INCONSISTENT WITH THE BIBLE. ADAM AND EVE IMMEDIATE CREATIONS.-DIVERSITY IN NATURE GOD'S PLAN.-THE FACTS OF GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY AGAINST EVOLUTION.-Prof. LE CONTE'S LATE WORK CRITICISED.-EVOLUTION PANTHEISTIC IN ITS TENDENCY.-THE THEORY NOT PROVEN.-TESTIMONY OF DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS.

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SCIENTIFIC discussion of the theory of Evolution is not intended, but only some general observations and an inquiry into its harmony with the Bible.

The term "evolution" is derived from the Latin word "evolutio," which signifies an "unrolling," and is employed to explain the mode of creation, or the unrolling or evolving of the present state of things from primitive matter; it is the unrolling or coming of one thing out of another. With one school of theorists, who accept the Bible as the word of God, it is simply the method He employed in creation. They admit a final cause, and believe that the laws of nature were made and put in operation by God to accomplish His purposes, and that He made all things, including man, not by an immediate and special act of creation, but by the slow process of evolution.

With another school, evolution is made to account for creation without the necessity of God. They recognize the existence of nothing but matter in the universe, and no law above the law of nature. They ascribe the origin of species and of all organic forms to the "fortuitous combination of matter," which is nothing more than chance. The effect is to destroy all sense of moral responsibility, and substitute for God's moral government of the universe blind forces, imminent in matter, chance, and inexorable necessity. They reject the supernatural, banish the Almighty from the universe He created, and loudly proclaim that their system is destroying Christianity. In matter they find "the promise and potency of every form of life," and, of course, if nothing in the universe but matter, there is no future life, and man is but a brute. These speculators, who are aiming at the overthrow of religion, do not seem to be consistent with their theories; for if religion is only a natural development it must be something that is required by man's wants and necessary to his wellbeing; otherwise it would not exist. If evolved, as claimed, it was evolved to meet an imperative demand, just as the human intellect and bodily organs were evolved, and hence, like them, a necessity. How, then, can they consistently oppose that which nature calls for?

Evolution assumes that the matter out of which all things have been evolved, existed primarily in a

sort of gaseous state, which contained the primal germ and all the necessary material out of which the universe was formed. It begins with the "Nebular Hypothesis," which, in its most popular form, assumes that all the space now occupied by the whole solar system was filled with a "nebulous mass,' "fire-mist," or gaseous matter, extending through infinity, and out of this primeval chaos the earth and all the heavenly bodies were evolved by condensation of the nebulæ. In some way or other this vast nebulous matter settled down around different centres and grew into stars and suns. Earth originally formed part of the "solar nebulosity," from which it became detached and slowly condensed into our globe. The moon was originally a part of the earth's nebulous matter, from which it became detached as the earth had separated from the sun. The impact of the component atoms upon each other produced light and heat. The gaseous matter gradually condensed and hardened, and each separate mass commenced whirling on its own axis and making revolutions around a common central orb with amazing precision and regularity, but how the rotation began no one can tell. In some such way, which some men of science seem capable of conceiving, earth was formed, and when developed into a proper condition for animal and vegetable life, animals and plants were found on it. But, unfortunately for this theory, the great telescopes constructed since