may well be proud, and who bowed to the supremacy of Him who has revealed Himself as the Supreme Creator in His own unerring Word, or that bold speculator who refuses to believe that man is a separate act of creative power, and who appears to be proud of his descent from the ghost of a sea squirt, combined with the form of an old-world monkey. Professor Huxley describes a remarkable peculiarity belonging to the heart of your ascidian ancestors, which it may be well to notice. He says, "After the heart has been beating a certain number of times in one direction it stops, and then begins beating the opposite way; " in which respect they may be said to resemble the least worthy of their human descendants, who, like rats, invariably desert a sinking ship, and turn heartily to worship the rising sun! Passing from the earliest of your progenitors according to the Darwinian philo Lay Sermons, p. 95. sophy as originally an ascidian tadpole, or ghost of a sea squirt, to the last of your prehistoric ancestors as seen in the oldworld monkey, I would direct your attention to what Darwin says about this important member of your ancestral pedigree. He has succeeded in finding the noble and intellectual forehead of man, together with those facial appointments of which he is naturally so proud-viz., beard, whisker, and moustache "in the Bonnet Monkey;" and though he admits that "in man the nose is much more prominent than in most monkeys," you may easily trace the fine old Roman nose—an "aquiline curvature," as he terms it-in another of your simian ancestors, the Horlock Gibbon, which he tells you is there carried to such a ridiculous extent, as fully to justify the propriety of the title to one of the tales of the 19th century, entitled the Nose with the Man! So Darwin considers that "the resemblance of the Pitheca Satanas (of the monkey tribe, noted for its magnificent beard and tail), his jet black A Kahau, or old-world Monkey. The last of man's prehistoric ancestors according to the Darwinian philosophy, with ideal human features. sophy as originally an ascidian tadpole, or ghost of a sea squirt, to the last of your prehistoric ancestors as seen in the oldworld monkey, I would direct your attention to what Darwin says about this important member of your ancestral pedigree. He has succeeded in finding the noble and intellectual forehead of man. together with those facial appointments of which he is naturally so proud-viz., beard. whisker, and moustache-" in the Bonnet Monkey;" and though he admits that "in man the nose is much more prominen: than in most monkeys," you may easily trace the fine old Roman nose-a "aquiline curvature," as he terms itanother of your simian ancestors, t Horlock Gibbon, which he tells you is there carried to such a ridiculous extent, as fully to justify the propriety of the title to one of the tales of the 19th century, entitled the Nose with the Man! So Darwin considers that "the resemblance of the nas (of the monkey trib magnificent bea nd t |