is what he says about the Evolution theory of Mr. Darwin:

"It is evident, especially after the most fundamental principles of Darwinism, that an organised being cannot be a descendant of another whose development is an inverse order to its own. Consequently, in accordance with these principles, man cannot be considered as the descendant of any simian type whatever."*

2. My second witness shall be that famous Naturalist, FRANK BUCKLAND, the greater son of a great father, whose authority on all subjects connected with the fishy tribe was of a higher nature than that of Darwin himself. Two days before his lamented death in 1880, he completed the Preface to his latest work, The Natural History of British Fishes. With fidelity to his Creator, as well as to the fame of his earthly father, himself a

The Human Species. By A. De Quatrefages, Membre de l'Institut (Académie des Sciences), and Foreign Member of the Royal Society. International Scientific Series, vol. xxvi., p. 111.

dying man on the verge of eternity, he made the following declaration of his scientific creed respecting EVOLUTION in these telling words :

"I have another object in writing this book: it is to endeavour to show the truth of the good old doctrines of the 'Bridgewater Treatises,' which have so ably demonstrated the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in creation.' Of late years, the doctrines of so-called EVOLUTION and DEVELOPMENT have seemingly gained ground amongst those interested in Natural History; but I have too much faith in the good sense and natural acumen of my countrymen to think these tenets will be very long-lived. To put matters very straight, I steadfastly believe that the great Creator, as indeed we are directly told, made all things perfect and 'very good' from the beginning; perfect and very good is every thing now found to be, and will continue so to the end of time."

You know, my scientific friends of the

21st century, how truly Frank Buckland's anticipations have come to to pass, how 'short-lived' was the queer delusion of man's descent from an ascidian tadpole; still shorter the Atheistic doctrine of man having been developed from dead matter, such as a piece of carbon, by the process of spontaneous generation; and now you naturally look back with wonder and amazement at the wild speculations of the Darwinites two centuries ago, when you see that the Evolution theory has tumbled to pieces like a pack of cards, or, using the more poetic language of Professor Tyndall, that it has quite "melted away into the infinite azure of the past."

My third witness is the Rev. F. O. MORRIS, Rector of Nunburnholme, in Yorkshire, whose History of British Birds constitutes him as distinguished an authority in the feathery tribe as Frank Buckland was in that of fishes. Mr. Morris' opinion appears in a correspondence which he once had with the editor of the Guardian newspaper, and though

expressed in terms unnecessarily strong for the occasion, are very valuable as showing what a learned Naturalist of the 19th century thought of Darwinism and its numerous disciples. He thus delivers his testimony:

"In one of Miss Edgeworth's tales she describes the 'ineffable contempt and indignation' with which Sir Plantagenet Mowbray received the proposition of Marvel, the Lincolnshire farmer, to purchase his heronry near Spalding. 'Ineffable contempt and indignation' is the only feeling which any one of common sense and of a right mind must feel at the astounding puerilities of Darwinism, its ten thousand times worse than childish absurdities, contempt for them in themselves, and indignation at the criminal injury which the miserable infidelity of the wretched system has done to the minds of too many."

Lamenting the unseemly strength of Mr. Morris' language, it nevertheless faithfully exhibits the feelings which the

most thoughtful savans of the 19th century, who still accepted Scripture as the only infallible guide, entertained for what I hope I shall not be deemed wanting in courtesy to the illustrious founder of the theory, if I am constrained to term it THE DARWINIAN CRAZE.

But inasmuch as there were a few very learned men of that age who believed, or supposed that they believed in Darwinism, it will be but fair if I quote some of them, in order to show you what was said at the time on the other side of the question.

MR. DARWIN'S DISCIPLES.

Here Professor Huxley has the first claim on your attention, not only on account of his talents, which are undoubtedly of the highest order, but also for the boundless admiration which he entertained when living for the master and founder of the school, whom he compares to Aristotle among the ancients, and to Sir Isaac Newton amongst the moderns.

Lamenting the strength of the language