VII.

MAN.

A love that spreads from zone to zone;
No time the sacred fire can smother!
Where breathes the man, I hail the brother.
Man! how sublime--from heaven his birth-
The God's bright image walks the earth!
And if, at times, his footstep strays,

I pity where I may not praise."

VII.

ORIGIN OF MAN AND UNITY OF THE

RACE.

The

question of

Origin.

A GENIAL writer of our own time has said: "Once the great question with men was, Where are we all going to? Now the question that commands chief attention is, Where did we all come from?" And in the present state of the public mind it is hardly possible to allude to the history of man or his relations to the world, but that this question will come to the front.

The old familiar theory is that man was a direct and immediate creation of God. Another theory is that he has developed, by a process called Evolution, out of the lower orders of the animal kingdom. The latter theory assumes different forms, but the one best known, perhaps, is that coupled with the name of Charles Darwin, and known as "Evolution by Natural Selection."

There is, first, a difference of opinion among